proprietary possession
1possession — [n1] control, ownership custody, dominion, hold, occupancy, occupation, possessorship, proprietary, proprietary rights, proprietorship, retention, tenancy, tenure, title; concepts 343,710 Ant. lack, need, want possession [n2] something owned;… …
2proprietary rights — index occupation (possession) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 proprietary rights …
3proprietary — /praprayat(eh)riy/ A proprietor or owner; one who has the exclusive title to a thing; one who possesses or holds the title to a thing in his own right; one who possesses the dominion or ownership of a thing in his own right. The grantees of… …
4Proprietary colony — Les Proprietary colonies étaient des concessions territoriales accordées par le roi à des Lords afin que ces derniers les mettent en valeur en favorisant leur peuplement et en y instaurant les lois et les coutumes d Angleterre. Ce type de… …
5Proprietary colony — A proprietary colony is a colony in which one or more private land owners retain rights that are normally the privilege of the state, and in all cases eventually became so. [Bernard Vincent, La période coloniale in États *Unis peuple et culture …
6possession — /peuh zesh euhn/, n. 1. the act or fact of possessing. 2. the state of being possessed. 3. ownership. 4. Law. actual holding or occupancy, either with or without rights of ownership. 5. a thing possessed: He packed all his possessions into one… …
7possession — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) State of owning or the thing owned Nouns 1. possession, ownership; proprietorship, lordship, fee, seigniorage, seigniory; empire, dominion (see authority); interest, stake, estate, right, title, claim,… …
8proprietary — Synonyms and related words: balm, balsam, beneficiary, cestui, cestui que trust, cestui que use, deedholder, dominion, dominium, drops, drug, electuary, elixir, ethical drug, feoffee, feudatory, generic name, herbs, householder, inhalant, laird,… …
9possession — Synonyms and related words: aberration, abnormality, accessories, acquest, acquire, acquisition, affluence, alienation, ally, aplomb, appointments, appurtenances, archduchy, archdukedom, assets, assurance, baggage, balance, bedevilment,… …
10proprietary — pro·pri·e·tar·y || prÉ™ praɪətÉ™rɪ / trɪ n. owner, proprietor; ownership; property, possession adj. of a proprietor, of an owner; of property, of a possession; protected by a patent or trade mark …
