OCCUPANCY

occupancy. Occupancy, n. possession, the act of seizing on

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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.