vacant possession

from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
VACANT POSSESSION, estates. An estate which has been abandoned by the 
tenant; the abandonment must be complete in order to make the possession 
vacant, and therefore if the tenant have goods on the premises, it will not 
be so considered. 2 Chit. Rep. 17 7; 2 Str. 1064; Bull. N. P. 97; Comyn on 
Landl. & Ten. 507, 517. 
    

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