possessory

Example Sentences

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If Wright gets hit with possessory taxes, she doesn’t see those older units as a simple solution.

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

But he could reduce unoccupied land to possession by cultivation, and so long as he thus used it he had a possessory right to its enjoyment which would be recognized and respected by his tribe.

From Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines by Morgan, Lewis H.