vacant possession
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The airspace is offered "with vacant possession" and the auctioneer's website says "a new 150-year lease with a peppercorn ground rent will be granted upon completion".
From BBC • Dec. 1, 2023
"We are removing council property so that All Souls can take vacant possession and decided what they want to do with the building," it said in a statement.
From The Guardian • May 16, 2012
And Godfrey could offer you a house in Emerald Avenue with vacant possession.
From The Privet Hedge by Buckrose, J. E.
The scheme could hardly be started with men accustomed to the present methods, and the cost of obtaining vacant possession of land would make it difficult to try with new men.
From Essays in Liberalism Being the Lectures and Papers Which Were Delivered at the Liberal Summer School at Oxford, 1922 by Various
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