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  2. Possession is nine-tenths of the law - Wikipedia

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    In the context of property law it can be restated as: "In a property dispute (whether real or personal), in the absence of clear and compelling testimony or documentation to the contrary, the person in actual, custodial possession of the property is presumed to be the rightful owner. The rightful owner shall have their possession returned to ...

  3. Stanley v. Georgia - Wikipedia

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    Stanley v. Georgia, 394 U.S. 557 (1969), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that helped to establish an implied "right to privacy" in U.S. law in the form of mere possession of obscene materials.

  4. Possession (law) - Wikipedia

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    Most property possessed is obtained with the consent of someone else who possessed it. They may have been purchased, received as gifts, leased, or borrowed. The transfer of possession of goods is called delivery. For land, it is common to speak of granting or giving possession. A temporary transfer of possession is called a bailment. Bailment ...

  5. Adverse possession - Wikipedia

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    Adverse possession in common law, and the related civil law concept of usucaption (also acquisitive prescription or prescriptive acquisition), are legal mechanisms under which a person who does not have legal title to a piece of property, usually real property, may acquire legal ownership based on continuous possession or occupation without the permission of its legal owner.

  6. Lost, mislaid, and abandoned property - Wikipedia

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    In property law, lost, mislaid, and abandoned property are categories of the common law of property which deals with personal property or chattel which has left the possession of its rightful owner without having directly entered the possession of another person. Property can be considered lost, mislaid, or abandoned depending on the ...

  7. Right of possession - Wikipedia

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    Also, if the rental company missed payments to the lienholder, the lienholder could also repossess the vehicle from the person having possession. I purchase a pen at a store. I have all three attributes (possession, right of possession and right of property). If I loan the pen to someone, they have only possession.

  8. First possession theory of property - Wikipedia

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    The "first possession" theory of property holds that ownership of something is justified simply by someone seizing it before someone else does. [1] This contrasts with the labor theory of property where something may become property only by applying productive labor to it, i.e. by making something out of the materials of nature.

  9. Possession - Wikipedia

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    Possession, an adaptation of the A. S. Byatt novel, starring Aaron Eckhart and Gwyneth Paltrow Possession (2009 film) , starring Sarah Michelle Gellar and Lee Pace The Possession , a 2012 horror film starring Natasha Calis, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Matisyahu and Kyra Sedgwick