habere
habere (h[schwa]-beer-ee), vb. [Latin “to have”] Roman law. To have (the right to) something. • This term was sometimes distinguished from tenere (to hold) and possidere (to possess), with habere referring to the right, tenere to the fact, and possidere to both. “ ‘Habere’ has two meanings; for we say that the owner of a […]