1.The act or state of possessing, or holding as one's own.
2.(Law) The having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command; actual seizin or occupancy; ownership, whether rightful or wrongful. Note: Possession may be either actual or constructive; actual, when a party has the immediate occupancy; constructive, when he has only the right to such occupancy.
3.The thing possessed; that which any one occupies, owns, or controls; in the plural, property in the aggregate; wealth; dominion; as, foreign possessions. "When the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions." "Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession." "The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions."
4.The state of being possessed or controlled, as by an evil spirit, or violent passions; madness; frenzy; as, demoniacal possession. "How long hath this possession held the man?"
To put in possession. (a)To invest with ownership or occupancy; to provide or furnish with; as, to put one in possession of facts or information.
(b)(Law) To place one in charge of property recovered in ejectment or writ of entry.
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