possessor

Roget category 779

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.9. Possessive relations
›› 5.9.1. Property in general

#779. Possessor

noun

possessor, holder — occupant, occupier — tenant — person in possession, man in possession etc. 777 — renter, lodger, lessee, underlessee^† — zemindar^†, ryot^† — tenant on sufferance, tenant at will, tenant from year to year, tenant for years, tenant for life.
owner — proprietor, proprietress, proprietary — impropriator^†, master, mistress, lord.
land holder, land owner, landlord, land lady, slumlord — lord of the manor, lord paramount — heritor, laird, vavasour^†, landed gentry, mesne lord^† — planter.
cestui-que-trust [Fr.], beneficiary, mortgagor.
grantee, feoffee^†, releasee [Law], relessee^†, devisee — legatee, legatary^†.
trustee — holder of the legal estate &c. — mortgagee.
right owner, rightful owner.
[Future possessor] heir presumptive, heir apparent — heiress — inheritor, inheritress, inheritrix — reversioner^†, remainderman^†.

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