actual possession

The lessees did not take up actual possession of the land.

William's son Richard (d.1243) took actual possession of the province in the 13th century.

There is power to extend the time period before actual possession.

These photos pretty well establish you people as the perpetrators, the ones with actual possession of the collection.

For instance, the bank must take constructive or actual possession of the good before selling it to the customer.

There was also the matter of actual physical possession.

Some security interests can be perfected only by the actual possession of the asset.

But now wealth had to be measured by actual possessions, birds in hand.

The one caught in actual possession of the diamonds would die more slowly and painfully.

The right to be put in actual possession of property.