vacant possession

vacant possession

land not subject to any lease or other adverse interest that would prevent the purchaser taking possession.

Collins Dictionary of Law © W.J. Stewart, 2006

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.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.