Sentence examples for concept of possession from inspiring English sources

The concept of possession itself is dwindling.

Because Western law gives great emphasis to the concept of possession, it has had considerable difficulty in making intangible things the object of property.

The scope of the old common-law crime of larceny has been gradually extended by various manipulations of the concept of possession.

However, "capture by evil" – the legal concept of possession of the individual by evil – may not always be a bad thing, she argues.

Any legal system that begins its property law with a concept of possession is going to have a property law biased in favour of tangible things.

Churchill's Owners (1972) takes an issue of contemporary concern (the concept of possession, relating to both property and sexual politics) and explores it in scenes that – as has become Churchill's signature – do not have the shape and rhythms of traditional drama.

Irrespective of the plain-view or instrumentality analyses, the concept of constructive possession has not been found to justify the search or seizure of an item not in actual possession.

The first understanding of concepts takes concept possession to be mainly a matter of linguistic competence.

In the United States, disseisin developed as the concept of adverse possession.

The fundamentalist churches of some African communities in the UK sustain the concept of demonic possession and the need to fight it by physical means.

If the notion of nonconceptual content is to be useful, however, we need to have a substantive account of what nonconceptual content consists in and how it is to be ascribed an account that will be the equivalent at the nonconceptual level of, for example, the Fregean account of concepts and concept possession.