joint-possession

Updated: May 23, 2025

Protestant neighbors, Landgraf Moritz of Hessen-Cassel at their head, intervene in tremulous haste, in the Cleve-Julich affair: "Peace, O friends! Some bargain; peaceable joint-possession; any temporary bargain, till we see! Can two Protestants fall to slashing one another, in such an aspect of the Reich and its Jesuitries?"

Thomas Carlyle - History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03

As each household had its own portion of land, so the clan-household or village had a clan-land belonging to it, which, as will afterwards be shown, was managed up to a comparatively late period after the analogy of household land, that is, on the system of joint-possession.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

As each household had its own portion of land, so the clan-household or village had a clan-land belonging to it, which, as will afterwards be shown, was managed up to a comparatively late period after the analogy of household land, that is, on the system of joint-possession.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book I : The Period Anterior to the Abolition of the Monarchy