occupation
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occupation
n. 1) fairly permanent trade, profession, employment, business, or means of livelihood. 2) possession of real property or use of a thing.
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occupation
1 a mode of original acquisition of property. It is done by taking a thing, intending to be its owner. Ownership of wild animals is obtained in this way, a hunter becoming the owner of wild animals killed and taken. Goods lost, abandoned and ownerless (called bona vacantia) fall to the Crown. It is a criminal offence not to take found things to a police station. It has a similar meaning in International Law.
2 living in a dwelling house or otherwise being in possession of land or buildings. The occupier of premises may attract OCCUPIER'S LIABILITY.
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OCCUPATION. Use or tenure; as, the house is in the occupation of A B. A
trade, business or mystery; as the occupation of a printer. Occupancy.
(q.v.)
2. In another sense occupation signifies a putting out of a man's
freehold in time of war. Co. Litt. s. 412. See Dependency; Possession.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.