Note 253 — Chapter XIV · POSSESSION (Continued).

Windscheid II. sect. 464: “If we ask what other rights, in addition to real rights, admit of possession, the answer is that in principle no right is incapable of possession, which is capable of continuing exercise (dauernde Ausübung).”

So Ihering, Grund des Besitz, p. 158: “The conception of possession is applicable to all rights which admit of realisation (Thatsächlichkeit), that is to say, which admit of a continuing visible exercise.” Ihering defines possession generally (p. 160) as “Thatsächlichkeit der mit dauernder Ausübung verbundenen Rechte.” See also Bruns, Recht des Besitzes, pp. 479, 481.