actual possession

1. 1.

   (law) immediate and direct physical control over property

   Broaderpossession

   law

Questions about actual possession

What does actual possession mean?

actual possession means "(law) immediate and direct physical control over property".

Is actual possession a common word?

actual possession is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.