Sentence examples for Right of possession from inspiring English sources

However, on Panama's mainland, right of possession property can be changed into a titled property.

In Panama, property falls under two legal definitions: "titled" or "right of possession".

The Queen owns all the UK's mute swans, but only exercises her right of possession around Windsor.

In contrast, civil-law systems rarely allow the right of possession to be so divided in terms of time.

The recognition by Congress of local customs and statutory provisions as at times controlling the right of possession does not incorporate them into the body of Federal law.

The policy underlying these provisions is the protection of possessors who have no right of possession but who are nevertheless acting in good faith.

On March 8 , 1885 Riel and the Métis passed a 10-point "Revolutionary Bill of Rights," in which the Métis asserted rights of possession to their farms.

But the case does underscore the rising significance of questions of rights of possession wherever there is a shortage of rental housing.

"Our rights of possession were not so incontestable as to render a renewal of the old controversy desirable from a British point of view," noted a foreign office official in 1927.

He was aware all the time, of course, of Fiona's maneuvering to make him notice her — there was a bit of past history between them, which he was wary of reviving, not wanting her to get it into her head that she had any rights of possession over him.

Like many of his neighbors, he bought a small piece of land and a house from a squatter on rights of possession, but he managed in 2000 to track down the titleholder's surviving sister in Vista, Calif .and paid perhaps as little as $5,000.