Meaning of OCCUPANCY
| Pronunciation: | | 'âkyupunsee
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- [n] the act of occupying or taking possession of a building; "occupation of a building without a certificate of occupancy is illegal"
- [n] an act of being a tenant or occupant
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| | Synonyms: | | moving in, occupation, taking possession, tenancy |
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| | See Also: | | abidance, acquiring, getting, habitation, inhabitancy, inhabitation, preoccupancy, preoccupation, residence, residency | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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| | Related Terms: | | abiding, abode, adverse possession, alodium, burgage, claim, cohabitation, colony, commorancy, de facto, de jure, dependency, derivative title, dwelling, fee fief, fee position, fee simple, fee simple absolute, fee simple conditional, fee simple defeasible, fee simple determinable, fee tail, feodum, feud, fiefdom, frankalmoign, free socage, freehold, gavelkind, habitancy, habitation, having title to, hold, holding, inhabitancy, inhabitation, inhabiting, knight service, lay fee, lease, leasehold, legal claim, legal possession, living, lodging, mandate, nesting, occupation, original title, owning, possessing, possession, preoccupancy, preoccupation, prepossession, prescription, property, property rights, proprietary rights, residence, residency, residing, seisin, settlement, socage, sojourning, squatting, staying, staying over, stopping, sublease, tenancy, tenantry, tenure, tenure in chivalry, title, underlease, undertenancy, usucapion, villein socage, villeinhold, villenage |
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