Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

&c 780; occupancy; hold, holding; tenure, tenancy, feodality†, dependency; villenage, villeinage†; socage†, chivalry, knight service. exclusive possession, impropriation†, monopoly, retention &c 781; prepossession, preoccupancy†; nine points of the law; corner, usucaption†. future possession, heritage, inheritance, heirship, reversion, fee, seigniority†; primogeniture, ultimogeniture†. futures contract [right of future possession; financial instruments], warrant, put, call, option; right of first refusal. bird in hand, uti possidetis [Lat.], chose in possession. V. possess, have, hold, occupy, enjoy; be possessed of &c adj.; have in hand &c adj.; own &c 780; command. inherit; come to, come in for. engross, monopolize, forestall, regrate†, impropriate†, have all to oneself; corner; have a firmhold of &c (retain) 781 [Obs.]; get into one's hand &c (acquire) 775. belong to, appertain to, pertain to; be in one's possession &c adj.; vest in. Adj. possessing &c v.; worth; possessed of, seized of, master of, in possession of; usucapient†; endowed with, blest with, instinct with, fraught with, laden with, charged with. possessed &c v.; on hand, by one; in hand, in store, in stock; in one's hands, in one's grasp, in one's possession; at one's command, at one's disposal; one's own &c (property) 780. unsold, unshared. Phr. entbehre gern was du nicht hast [G.]; meum et tuum [Lat.]; tuum est [Lat.]. 777a. Exemption — N. exemption; absence &c 187; exception, immunity, privilege, release. V. not have &c 777; be without &c adj.; excuse. Adj. exempt from, devoid of, without, unpossessed of†, unblest with†; immune from. not having &c 777; unpossessed†; untenanted &c (vacant) 187; without an owner. unobtained†, unacquired.