quasi-possession

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• quasi — 1. quasi [ kazi ] adv. • 980; mot lat. ♦ Région. ou littér. Presque, pour ainsi dire. (Devant un adj.) « Le raisin est quasi mûr » (Colette). (Devant un t. à valeur quantitative) « Il les aime quasi autant les uns que les autres » (Sand). ⇒… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• possession — Having control over a thing with the intent to have and to exercise such control. Oswald v. Weigel, 219 Kan. 616, 549 P.2d 568, 569. The detention and control, or the manual or ideal custody, of anything which may be the subject of property, for… …   Black's law dictionary

• quasi — /kweysay/kwoziy/ As if; almost as it were; analogous to. This term is used in legal phraseology to indicate that one subject resembles another, with which it is compared, in certain characteristics, but that there are intrinsic and material… …   Black's law dictionary

• POSSESSION — Observée dans des contextes culturels très divers, la possession par des entités divines – » esprits », « génies », etc. – est un phénomène social d’une grande fréquence, qui a suscité des interrogations et reçu des interprétations multiples. Une …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• Quasi-War — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Quasi War caption= USS Constellation served with distinction in the Quasi War date=1798–1800 place= North American coasts and off Tarifa result= Effective end of French Revolutionary privateer attacks on… …   Wikipedia

• quasi-judicial — | ̷ ̷(ˌ) ̷ ̷+ adjective 1. : having a partly judicial character by possession of the right to hold hearings on and conduct investigations into disputed claims and alleged infractions of rules and regulations and to make decisions arrived at and… …   Useful english dictionary

• quasi-legislative — “+ adjective 1. : having a partly legislative character by possession of the right to make rules and regulations having the force of law the Interstate Commerce Commission is a quasi legislative agency 2. : essentially legislative in character… …   Useful english dictionary

• quasi — adjective Etymology: quasi Date: 1642 1. having some resemblance usually by possession of certain attributes < a quasi corporation > 2. having a legal status only by operation or construction of law and without reference to intent < a quasi… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• quasi-judicial — adjective Date: 1836 1. having a partly judicial character by possession of the right to hold hearings on and conduct investigations into disputed claims and alleged infractions of rules and regulations and to make decisions in the general manner …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• quasi-legislative — adjective Date: circa 1934 1. having a partly legislative character by possession of the right to make rules and regulations having the force of law < a quasi legislative agency > 2. essentially legislative in character but not within the… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• quasi contract — Legal fiction invented by common law courts to permit recovery by contractual remedy in cases where, in fact, there is no contract, but where circumstances are such that justice warrants a recovery as though there had been a promise. It is not… …   Black's law dictionary