Physical and Legal Possession

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..... se of a claim to the exclusive use of a material object. M. SIDDIQ (D) THR. LRS. VERSUS MAHANT SURESH DAS AND ORS. - 2019 (11) TMI 1396 - SUPREME COURT Meaning of `Physical and Legal Possession' In Halsbury's Laws of England (Fourth Edition, page 617 - para 1111), `physical and legal possession' is distinguished as under: Possession is a word of ambiguous meaning, and its legal s .....

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..... ession is ordinarily associated with de facto possession; but legal possession may exist without de facto possession, and de facto possession is not always regarded as possession in law. A person who, although having no de facto possession, is deemed to have possession in law is sometimes said to have constructive possession. Pollock and Wright in their classic work, `An Essay on Possession in th .....

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