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occupant|ˈɒkjʊpənt|
[ad. L. occupānt-em, pr. pple. of occupāre to occupy, perh. immed. a. F. occupant (15th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. A person occupying or holding in actual possession (property, esp. land, or an office or position); one who occupies, resides in, or is at the time in (a place); an occupier.
1622Bp. Hall Contempl., N.T. iii. iv, One room is left void for a future occupant. 1652–62Heylin Cosmogr. iii. (1673) 211/1 Retaining a third part of the profits to himself, and leaving two thirds to the Occupants. 1767Blackstone Comm. II. i. 10 The most universal and effectual way of abandoning property, is by the death of the occupant. 1823J. Marshall Const. Opin. (1839) 264 [The Indians] were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil. 1867Smiles Huguenots Eng. v. (1880) 84 The sacrilegious occupant of the English throne. 1883R. S. Wright in Law Times Rep. L. 273/2 The voter was the occupant of two rooms only in the house.
b. Law. One who takes possession of something having no owner, and so establishes a title to it.
1596Bacon Use of Law, Property in Lands iv. §2 This land [goeth]..to the party that first entereth; and he is called an occupant. 1650Bp. Hall Balm Gil. 195 Whose shall those things be?..perhaps a strangers, perhaps (as in case of undisposed Lands) the occupants. 1767Blackstone Comm. II. xvi. 259 Belonging therefore to nobody..the law left it open to be seised and appropriated by the first person that could enter upon it..under the name of an occupant. 1844–75Williams Real Prop. (ed. 11) i. 20 The person who had so entered was called a general occupant.
†2. A prostitute. (Cf. occupy 8.) Obs.
1599Marston Sco. Villanie Prol. 166 Whose sences some damn'd Occupant bereaues. Ibid. ii. vii. 206 He with his Occupant, Are cling'd so close, like deaw-worms in the morne That he'le not stir. |