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Civil possession

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Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In modern civil law and in the law of Louisiana, that possession which exists when a person ceases to reside in a house or on the land which he occupied, or to detain the movable which he possessed, but without intending to abandon the possession. It is the detention of a thing by virtue of a just title and under the conviction of possessing as owner. Civ. Code La. art. 3391 et seq.

Defined under Possession in Black's Law Dictionary.