legitimate possession

The treaty created a global system that reserved to only five nations the legitimate possession of nuclear arms, a cause of dissent then and now.

However, he and his successors recognized the Byzantine Rite and discipline wherever it was in legitimate possession.

But he was ready to suffer anything to obtain legitimate possession of the Platinum Flute, the most re- markable instrument he could imagine.

One day the Taliban appeared at the house and demanded that Hassan vacate the premises, declaring that no Hazara could be in legitimate possession of the house.

If you can't show that you paid this money and secured legitimate possession of those notes, the police are going to think that you secured possession of them illegally."

Judge Owen said the money was analogous to funds that had been embezzled, and as such, Mr. Levine and Mr. Wilkis could not maintain that they had legitimate possession for tax-paying purposes.

Thus the sceptical procedure in philosophy does not present any solution of the problems of reason, but it forms an excellent exercise for its powers, awakening its circumspection, and indicating the means whereby it may most fully establish its claims to its legitimate possessions.

A hypothetical entity empowered to lay claim upon any object can also approach a grey area between legitimate possession and theft if its possession of an object is not clearly defined, that is, if this entity itself has doubts as to whether it possesses the object in question.

Tŷ unnos has no status in English common law (the legal code which applied to England and Wales in this period), although there is some tradition of legal discussion about the point at which land occupied by squatters without title may be regarded as a legitimate possession.

This was "the one thing needful" He says, "His soul belongs to the world as its illegitimate possession; it belongs to God as his legitimate possession; it belongs to the person himself as his possession, as a possession that is to be gained.