1. If you actually possess something, you have a stronger legal claim to owning it than someone who merely says it belongs to him or her.
2. something that you say which means that if you have something, it is difficult for other people to take it away from you.
1. Dana may say he owns this house, but we actually live in it, and possession is nine-tenths of the law.
2. It would be hard to ask for the piano back after they've had it for so long. Possession is nine-tenths of the law and all that.
by Dorothy-cute March 16, 2011
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With its name derived from the Bruce Springsteen hit
"Tenth Avenue Freeze Out", a tenth avenue freeze up
is the inability to urinate in a public bathroom.
Better go to the bathroom before we leave for the
ball game--the bathrooms at the stadium will be
crowded and you might have a tenth avenue freeze up.
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Tenth-cousin-thrice-removed (10C3R).
My tenth-cousin-3X-removed is a good person.
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Tenth-cousin-seven-times-removed (10C7R).
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Tenth-cousin-eleven-times-removed (10C11R).
My tenth-cousin-11X-removed is a good person.
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Tenth-cousin-once-removed (10C1R).
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A very difficult mathematical operation, which gives as a result 5.7179625e-48, which is a very complex number. A dumb mathematician said that this number is also the result of 1 to the second. That man was murdered soon after.
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