Rating | Solver | Clue |
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OWNERSHIP | Legal possession | |
SEIZE | To take possession of by virtue of a warrant or other legal authority; as, the sheriff seized the debtor's goods. | |
SETTLEMENT | Bestowal, or giving possession, under legal sanction; the act of giving or conferring anything in a formal and permanent manner. | |
UTI POSSIDETIS | A species of interdict granted to one who was in possession of an immovable thing, in order that he might be declared the legal possessor. | |
PROPRIETOR | One who has the legal right or exclusive title to anything, whether in possession or not; an owner; as, the proprietor of farm or of a mill. | |
PROPERTY | That to which a person has a legal title, whether in his possession or not; thing owned; an estate, whether in lands, goods, or money; as, a man of large property, or small property. | |
RELEASE | To let go, as a legal claim; to discharge or relinquish a right to, as lands or tenements, by conveying to another who has some right or estate... |