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Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

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

In Scotch law. An interdict as to movables, by which the colorable _ possession of a bona fide holder is continued until the final settlement _ of a contested right. Corresponding to uti possidetis as to heritable property. Bell, Diet.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In the civil law. The name of a species of interdict for retaining a thing, granted for the purpose of protecting the possession of a movable thing, as the uti possidetis was granted for an immovable. Inst. 4, 15, 4; Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 260.

In Scotch law. An interdict as to movables, by which the colorable possession of a bona fide holder is continued until the final settlement of a contested right; corresponding to uti possidetis as to heritable property. Bell.