They contain stipulations for extinguishing the possessory rights of the Indians to large and valuable tracts of lands.
A convenient division of the special liens other than possessoryon ships may be made by classifying them as maritime, statutory-maritime or quasi-maritime, and statutory.
As regards possessory liens, the shipwright takes the ship as she stands, i.
But, in reality, this interdict is not possessory: for he who wishes to acquire possession by this means does not possess, and has not possessed; and yet acquired possession is the condition of possessory interdicts.
Modern German statutes have followed in the same path so far as to give the possessory remedies to tenants and some others.
If the statement is aided by dramatic reinforcement, I may add that possessory rights pass by descent or devise, as well as by conveyance, /1/ and that they are taxed as property in some of the States.
Perhaps [209] another fact besides those which have been mentioned has influenced this reasoning, and that is the accurate division between possessory and petitory actions or defences in Continental procedure.
In the next place, and this was the importance of the last Lecture to this subject, the common law has always given the possessory remedies to all bailees without exception.
The point which is essential to understanding the common-law theory of possession is now established: that all bailees from time immemorial have been regarded by the English law as possessors, and entitled to the possessory remedies.
Rent was treated in early law as a real right, of which a disseisin was possible, and for which a possessoryaction could be brought.
It abhors the absence of proprietary or possessoryrights as a kind of vacuum.
But the modified rule does not concern the present discussion, any more than the earlier form, because it still leaves open the possessory remedies to all bailees without exception.
A way, until it becomes a right of way, is just as little susceptible of being held by a possessory title as a contract.
The consequences attached to possession are substantially those attached to ownership, subject to the question the continuance of possessory rights which I have touched upon above.
In the assize of novel disseisin, which which was a true possessory action, the defendant could always rely on his title.
Definite possessory right was vested in the kinships composing the tribe; but the idea of sale, barter, or conveyance or alienation of such by the kin had not been conceived.
The canonists themselves having made marriages all too easy, and valid marriages all too difficult, had been driven into a doctrine of possessory marriage.
The jury could determine, in a possessory action, whether there had been a public ceremony in face of the church.
It recognized in them nothing but a possessory title, involving a right of occupancy and enjoyment until such time as the European sovereign should purchase it from them.
It provided fully for the enlistment of colored troops, and gave the freedmen certain possessory rights to land, which afterward became matters of judicial inquiry and decision.
The possessory princes, in whose cause the sword was drawn, were too quarrelsome and too fainthearted to serve for much else than an incumbrance either in the cabinet or the field.
But this was a startling interference with feudal justice and only compassed by degrees, in particular by remedies which in theory were but possessory etc.
Must we not say then that, until evidence be produced on the other side, Bracton is entitled to a judgment, a possessory judgment?
Mr. Trumbull explained the circumstances under which the freedmen had obtained possessory titles to lands in Georgia, and urged the propriety of their being confirmed by Congress for three years.
Mr. Stevens desired to amend the bill by striking out the limitation to three years given the possessory titles conferred by General Sherman, and rendering them perpetual.
The fifth section, as amended by the proposition before the Senate, proposes to confirm the possessory right of the colored people upon these lands for three years from the date of that order, or about two years from this time.
That section proposes to confirm for three years the possessory titles granted by General Sherman.
South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, for a temporary purpose, what was the extent of the possessory right which he could confer?
Meantime, while such were the diplomatic beginnings of the possessory princes, the League was leaving no stone unturned to awaken Henry to a sense of his true duty to the Church of which he was Eldest Son.
They were also likely, and were artfully so intended, to excite suspicion of Henry's designs in the breasts of the Protestants generally and of the possessory princes especially.
He declared that he would break up everything and dare everything, whether the possessory princes formally applied to him or not.
The real motive of his mission, however, was privately to ascertain whether Henry was really ready to go to war for the protection of the possessory princes, and then, to proceed to Spain.
He had also sent Sir Ralph Winwood on a special mission to the Hague, to Dusseldorf, and with letters to the Emperor, in which he expressed confidence that Rudolph would approve the proceedings of the possessory princes.
The States, through the pen and brain of Barneveld, replied that they had already recognized the rights of the possessory princes, and were surprised that the Bishop-Archduke should oppose them.
The possessory princes were accordingly established in Dusseldorf with the consent of the provincial estates, in which place those bodies were wont to assemble.
He loudly pronounced the proceedings of the possessory princes to be utterly illegal, and contrary to all precedent.
The envoys of the possessory princes, the Counts Solms, Colonel Pallandt, and Dr.
Here then was Spain in the person of Leopold quietly perched in the chief citadel of the country, while Protestantism in the shape of the possessory princes stood menacingly in the capital.
He treated Teynagel as a mere madcap and, adventurer who had no right to be received as a public minister at all, and cut short his rodomontades by assuring him that his mind was fully made up to protect the possessory princes.
Furthermore, the only right the gentes claimed in them was a possessory one.
The possessory right in the soil was vested in the gens composing the tribe, and they in turn granted to individuals certain definite lots for the purpose of culture.
The Queen-Regent as then advised meant to wash her hands of the possessory princes once and for ever.
Otherwise Anhalt and the possessory princes and the affair of Cleve might have had as little effect in driving him into war as did the interests of the Netherlands in times past.
The grandees of the kingdom had something more important to do than to go crusading in Germany, with the help of a heretic republic, to set up the possessory princes.
Persons who removed from one village to another could not transfer their possessory right to cultivated lands or to a section of a joint-tenement house to a stranger; but must leave them to his gentile kindred.
Although lands were owned in common by the tribe, a possessory right to cultivated land was now recognized in the individual, or in the group, which became a subject of inheritance.
It consisted in the former condition of personal effects, to which, in the latter, were added possessory rights in joint-tenement houses and in gardens.
We need to know how these sections of each pueblo are owned and inherited, whether the possessor has the right to sell and transfer to a stranger, and if not, the nature and limits of his possessory right.
The possessory right, which we must suppose existed in individuals or in families, was inalienable, except within the gens, and on the demise of the person would pass by inheritance to his or her gentile heirs.
No time can be assigned when this was not the case; but at first it was probably the possessory right to lands in actual occupation, so often before referred to, which was recognized as far back as the Lower Status of barbarism.
It was not only admeasured but granted by the government, which was very different from a possessoryright in lands growing out of an individual act.
With a possessory right in individuals to occupied lands, 530.
Women, as well as men, not unlikely, had a possessory right to such rooms and sections of these pueblo houses as they occupied; and they doubtless transmitted these rights to their nearest of kin, under established regulations.
We see the possessory princes treated as enemies upon their own estates, and many thousand souls of the Reformed religion cruelly oppressed by the Papistical League.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "possessory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
