Possessed
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
This word is applied to the right and enjosrtnent of a termor, or a person having a term, who is said to be possessed, and not seised.
Bac. Tr. 335; Poph. 76; Dyer, 369.
POSSESSIO (Lat.) In Civil Law. The detention of a thing; divided into, first, natural, or the naked detention of a thing, without intention to acquire ownership; second, civil, or the detention of a thing to which one has a right, or with intention of acquiring ownership.
Heinec. Elem. Jur. Civ. § 1288; Mackeld. Civ. Law, §§ 210, 213.
In Old English Law. Possession; seisin.
Law Fr. & Lat. Diet.; 2 Bl. Comm. 227; Bracton, lib. 2, c. 17; Cowell, "Possession."
But seisina cannot be of an estate less than freehold; possessio can.
New England Sheriflf, 141; 1 Mete. (Mass.) 450; 6 Mete. (Mass.) 439.
POSSESSIO BONA FIDE (Lat.) Possession in good faith. POSSESSIO BONORUiVI (Lat.) In the civil law. The possession of goods. More commonly termed bonorum possessio.