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Possessory Judgment

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

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.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

A judgment which entitles one who has uninterruptedly been in possession for seven years to continue until the question of right be decided in due course of law.—Bell Dictionary.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In Scotch practice. A judgment which entities 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.

Defined under Possessory in Black's Law Dictionary.