Talk:possession of interest

RFD discussion: May 2022–March 2023
Moved from RFV. There is a selection of cites on the citations page, but it looks NISOP. Kiwima (talk) 01:51, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

This is bizarre: an old 2006 import: "The act of one caring for or one's interest over something. You are always talking about your clothes, but that is not in my possession of interest." That sentence sounds unnatural to me and I cannot easily find any comparable sentence in Google. I think it might be confusion over a sentence like "you have nothing in your possession [that is] of interest to me", which of course doesn't work with this entry lemma. Equinox ◑ 15:38, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
 * cited. I put a selection of what I found on the citations page. It does seem to crop up in a number of legal or quasi-legal writings. Looks a bit SOP to me. What do others think? Kiwima (talk) 21:54, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
 * To me, the fact that term this doesn't turn up in any legal dictionaries suggests strongly that it is SOP. Most of the collected cites seem to use it literally to mean "the fact of possessing an interest in something". The Ryan cite (which is patently not from 2022... Gutenberg has a version of that text from 1916) probably means "possessing (monetary) interest (on capital)". This, that and the other (talk) 00:59, 22 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Delete - none of the citations show it being used as a technical term, but merely refer to the literal possession of a (legal) interest. Theknightwho (talk) 01:57, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete – it is just as easy to cite, but this collocation too is just a sum of parts. --Lambiam 10:18, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete: not, as far as I am aware, a legal term of art. — Sgconlaw (talk) 19:23, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Not found in Black's Law Dictionary, the closest thing being a possessory interest. bd2412 T 21:09, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Definitely not the same thing, either. A possessory interest is a legal interest held by virtue of being in possession of something. On the other hand, anyone with any kind of legal interest can be described as having "possession of interest". I'd argue it's probably nonstandard, as it treats as an uncountable noun while using a sense that is countable (sense 5 / a yet unadded formal legal sense), but that doesn't make it special. Theknightwho (talk) 01:33, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
 * RFD-deleted. Binarystep (talk) 00:21, 12 March 2023 (UTC)