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The act of taking or holding possession; possession; occupation. 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.

The act or right of taking possession before another; as, the preoccupancy of wild land.

To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown. Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain. Goldsmith.

rty; estate; especially, the land about the mansion house of a lord, and in his immediate occupancy; demesne. Shenstone.

The condition of enjoying anything; pleasure or satisfaction, as in the possession or occupancy of anything; possession and use; as, the enjoyment of an estate.

The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy. Denham.

f inhabiting, or the state of being inhabited; the condition of an inhabitant; residence; occupancy. Ruins yet resting in the wild moors testify a former inhabitance. Carew.

The state of dwelling or residing; occupancy as a dwelling place. [Obs.] Shak.

The having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command; actual seizin or occupancy; ownership, whether rightful or wrongful.

n of. A tract of land [Holland] snatched from an element perpetually reclaiming its prior occupancy. W. Coxe.

A particular portion of space appropriated for occupancy; a place to sit, stand, or lie; a seat. If he have but twelve pence in his purse, he will give it for the best room in a playhouse. Overbury. When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room. Luke xiv. 8.

One of twe or more occupying the same room or rooms; one who shares the occupancy of a room or rooms; a chum.