"assert possession" is a grammatically correct phrase in written English.
You can use it to express the idea that someone claims or exercises their right to something. For example, "Although the house is in dispute, the cat owner was determined to assert possession of her beloved pet."
Nearly every minority culture wants just such authority to assert possession of its past and the right to judge itself in the present.
We often call them action words, but verbs also can carry sentiments (love, fear, lust, disgust), hint at cognition (realize, know, recognize), bend ideas together (falsify, prove, hypothesize), assert possession (own, have) and conjure existence itself (is, are).
In Jones the Court recognized automatic standing in possessory crimes because the prosecution should not be allowed to take contradictory positions in the suppression hearing and then at trial, and also because of the dilemma that the defendant would face if he were forced to assert possession to challenge a search.
Mr. Bagley laid out one of his grammatical pet peeves: the use of the preposition "of" along with an apostrophe-S when asserting possession.
He also ruled that the club had failed to stake out its entire perimeter with a fence or to otherwise assert ownership, criteria for proving adverse possession.
Thus he can identify an actuality as a primary attribute, allowing that possession of the attribute by the subject only occurs "for the most part," and still identify the first principle asserting this possession of the attribute as a necessary truth.
For example, section 106(c) permits a trustee or debtor in possession to assert avoiding powers under title 11 against a governmental unit; contrary language in the House report to H.R. 8200 is thereby overruled.
Without actual ouster, he said, the law allows a co-owner to assert a claim of adverse possession if the person asserting the claim has been in continuous, exclusive possession for 20 years or more.
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.
This holds especially true for monotheistic religions, which assert that they are in possession of unique knowledge about God.
There is no principled way to distinguish Iraq from North Korea and Pakistan, both of which clearly have the weapons systems we thus far can only infer or assert are in Iraq's possession.
