Roget's Thesaurus

#777. Possession

Nouns

possession, seizin [Law], seisin [Law]; ownership etc. 780; occupancy; hold, holding; tenure, tenancy, feodality, dependency; villenage, villeinage; socage, chivalry, knight service. exclusive possession, impropriation, monopoly, retention etc. 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.

Verbs

possess, have, hold, occupy, enjoy; be possessed of etc. adj.; have in hand etc. adj.; own etc. 780; command. inherit; come to, come in for. engross, monopolize, forestall, regrate, impropriate, have all to oneself; corner; have a firmhold of etc. (retain) 781; get into one's hand etc. (acquire) 775. belong to, appertain to, pertain to; be in one's possession etc. adj.; vest in.

Adjectives

possessing etc. 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 etc. 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 etc. (property) 780. unsold, unshared.

Phrases

entbehre gern was du nicht hast [G.]; meum et tuum [Lat.]; tuum est [Lat.].

#777a. Exemption

Nouns

exemption; absence etc. 187; exception, immunity, privilege, release.

Verbs

not have etc. 777; be without etc. adj.; excuse.

Adjectives

exempt from, devoid of, without, unpossessed of, unblest with; immune from. not having etc. 777; unpossessed; untenanted etc. (vacant) 187; without an owner. unobtained, unacquired.