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Record 1,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 DEF

The exercise of physical detention or control over a thing as by occupying a building or cultivating farmland.  1, record 1, English, - natural%20possession

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Natural possession may be had without title, and may give rise to a claim of unlawful possession or a claim of ownership by acquisitive prescription.  1, record 1, English, - natural%20possession

Record 1,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Possession naturelle, est la détention de quelque chose qui appartient à autrui: cette possession est de deux sortes; l'une qui est juste, comme quand un créancier possède la chose qui lui a été donnée en gage par son débiteur; l'autre qui est injuste, est celle d'un voleur et d'un possesseur de mauvaise foi, qui joint à la détention de la chose, l'envie de la retenir, quoiqu'il n'ait pas droit de le faire.  1, record 1, French, - possession%20naturelle

Record 1,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 2,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 DEF

The continuing exercise of a claim to the exclusive use of a material thing. The elements of this possession are first, the mental attitude of the claimant, the intent to possess, to appropriate to oneself; and second, the effective realization of this attitude. ... (A)n intent to exclude others must coexist with the external facts, and must be fulfilled in the external physical facts in order to constitute possession. (Black's, 5th ed., 1979, p. 1047)  1, record 2, English, - corporeal%20possession

Record 2,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 OBS

possession corporelle : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).  2, record 2, French, - possession%20corporelle

Record 2,  Textual support,  Spanish