Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

natural possession

Civil law. The exercise of physical detention or control over a thing, as by occupying a building or cultivating farmland. 0 Natural possession may be had without title, and may give rise to a claim of unlawful possession or a claim of ownership by acquisitive prescription. The term "natural possession" has been replaced by the term "corporeal possession" in the Louisiana Civil Code, by virtue of a 1982 revision. The change was nonsubstantive. La. Civ. Code Ann. art. 3425 (West 1994). See corporeal possession; PRESCRIPTION (2).