natural possession

Civil law. The exercise of physical detention or control over a thing, as by occupying a building or cultivating farmland.

• 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. The term “natural possession” has been replaced by the term “corporeal possession” in the Louisiana Civil Code, by virtue of a 1982 revision. La. Civ. Code Ann. art. 3425. See corporeal possession; PRESCRIPTION(2). Cf. possessio naturalis under POSSESSIO. [Cases: Property 10. C.J.S. Property §§ 27–31, 33.]

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