possessory
Example Sentences
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The company is appealing, arguing it doesn’t meet the qualifications to have a possessory interest.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2023
“It seems to recognize that a former president has a possessory interest in terms of documents.”
From Washington Post • Sep. 5, 2022
The part of these dating codes that I dislike is the possessory interest it gives our friends over third parties.
From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2018
TV does that—that powerful, possessory bond with the audience.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 21, 2015
GEORGIA, her avoidance of the Civil Rights Bill, 275; possessory titles of freedmen to lands in, 108.
From History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by Barnes, William Horatio