WordNet
n. (law) immediate and direct physical control over property
Usage examples of "actual possession".
Whilst Perseus was away in Thrace, Philip made a progress through the cities of Macedonia, and recommended Antigonus to their leading men, and had he lived longer he would undoubtedly have left him in actual possession of the crown.
To some it seemed that, now that they were in actual possession of it, freedom was a more serious thing than they had expected to find it.
He was your robot, in that you designed his brain paths and supervised his construction, but was he in your actual possession at the time of the mental freeze-out?
The joy of actual possession, the intriguing misery of never being able actually to possess her again.
How Darrow could have got actual possession of it was unguessable.