Oc"cu*pan*cy (?), n. [See Occupant.]

The act of taking or holding possession; possession; occupation.

Title by occupancy Law, a right of property acquired by taking the first possession of a thing, or possession of a thing which belonged to nobody, and appropriating it.

Blackstone. Kent.

 

© Webster 1913.

Log in or register to write something here or to contact authors.