possessory

Example Sentences

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Despite concern over its fees, which Waterford disputes as being excessive, the annual possessory taxes are more than what the company makes each year to run the buildings, Drachman said.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2023

“It seems to recognize that a former president has a possessory interest in terms of documents.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 5, 2022

The part of these dating codes that I dislike is the possessory interest it gives our friends over third parties.

From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2018

TV does that—that powerful, possessory bond with the audience.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 21, 2015

It proposes to confirm and make valid the possessory titles granted in pursuance of Major-General Sherman's special field order, dated at Savannah, January 16, 1865.

From History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by Barnes, William Horatio