Perception
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Anderson (1889), Abbott (1879)
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
A taking possession.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Taking into possession. Thus, perception of crops or of profits is reducing them to possession.
A Dictionary of Law
William C. Anderson · 1889
Taking, receiving; pernancy, q. v. "Perception of rents and profits is the mortgagor's right until a final determination of the right to sell [by the mortgagee], and a sale made accordingly."'
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Taking into possession; thus perception of crops or of profits is reducing them to possession.