- Taking possession of - Taking without asking - The act of setting apart or assigning to a
particular use or person, or of taking to one's self, in exclusion of
all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of
ground for a park, or of money to carry out some object. - Anything, especially money, thus set apart. - The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the
perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone. - The application of payment of money by a debtor to
his creditor, to one of several debts which are due from the former to
the latter.
- Possession; possession of an estate of froehold. It may be
either in deed or in law; the former when there is actual possession,
the latter when there is a right to such possession by construction of
law. In some of the United States seizin means merely ownership. - The act of taking possession. - The thing possessed; property.