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possessory

adjective/pəˈzɛsəri/

C2CEFR level
75/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

Relating to or arising from the fact of possession rather than documented ownership.

A possessory title can be upgraded to absolute once the registrar is satisfied by long occupation.

Topic: Property in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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