Note 223 — Chapter XIII · POSSESSION.

“Absolute security for the future,” says Dernburg, Pandekten, I. sect. 169, “is not requisite. For it is not to be had.... All that is necessary is that according to the ordinary course of affairs one is able to count on the continuing enjoyment of the thing.” See also I. sect. 178. See also Pollock and Wright, Possession, p. 13: “That occupation is effective which is sufficient as a rule and for practical purposes to exclude strangers from interfering with the occupier’s use and enjoyment.”