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Possessory Judgment

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In Scotch practice. A judgment which entitles a person who has uninterruptedly been in possession for seven years to continue his possession until the question of right be decided in due course of law. Bell, Diet. POSSIBILITAS (Lat.) In old English law. Possibility; a possibility. Possibilitas post dissolutionem executionis nunquam reviviscatur, a possibility will never be revived after the dissolution of its execution.

1 Rolle, 321.

After a possibility has become executed, it will not be revived by a dissolution of the estate, as by a divorce. Post executionem status, lex non patitur possibilitatem, after the execution of an estate, the law does not suffer a possibility.

3 Bulst. 108.