occupancy
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Occupancy \Oc"cu*pan*cy\, n. [See {Occupant}.]
1. The act of taking or holding possession, especially of
real property or rental property; possession; occupation.
[1913 Webster]
2. The state or condition of being occupied; as, occupancy by
more than 250 people is dangerous and unlawful.
[PJC]
3. The period of time during which one occupies a property.
[PJC]
{Title by occupancy} (Law), a right of property acquired by
taking the first possession of a thing, or possession of a
thing which belonged to nobody, and appropriating it.
--Blackstone. Kent.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
82 Moby Thesaurus words for "occupancy":
abiding, abode, adverse possession, alodium, burgage, claim,
cohabitation, colony, commorancy, de facto, de jure, dependency,
derivative title, dwelling, fee fief, fee position, fee simple,
fee simple absolute, fee simple conditional, fee simple defeasible,
fee simple determinable, fee tail, feodum, feud, fiefdom,
frankalmoign, free socage, freehold, gavelkind, habitancy,
habitation, having title to, hold, holding, inhabitancy,
inhabitation, inhabiting, knight service, lay fee, lease,
leasehold, legal claim, legal possession, living, lodging, mandate,
nesting, occupation, original title, owning, possessing,
possession, preoccupancy, preoccupation, prepossession,
prescription, property, property rights, proprietary rights,
residence, residency, residing, seisin, settlement, socage,
sojourning, squatting, staying, staying over, stopping, sublease,
tenancy, tenantry, tenure, tenure in chivalry, title, underlease,
undertenancy, usucapion, villein socage, villeinhold, villenage
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