Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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immediate possession
Possession that is acquired or retained directly or personally. -Also termed direct possession.
mediate possession
Possession of a thing through someone else, such as an agent. ( In every instance of mediate possession, there is a direct possessor (such as an agent) as well as a mediate possessor (the principal). - Also termed indirect possession. "If I go myself to purchase a book, I acquire direct possession of it; but if I send my servant to buy it for me, I acquire mediate possession of it through him, until he has brought it to me, when my possession becomes immediate." John Salmond, Jurisprudence 300 (Glanville L. Williams ed., 10th ed. 1947).