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Lexicographical Neighbors of

taking action
taking apart
taking care
taking charge
taking command
taking control
taking hold
taking into custody
taking on
taking out
taking out the trash
taking over
taking place
taking point
taking possession (current term)
taking root
taking stock
taking the cake
taking the mickey
taking time
takingly
takings
takins
takis
takovite
taks
taky

Literary usage of

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Roughing It by Mark Twain (2001)
"... and a-tearing down that mountain side—splinters, and cord-wood, thunder and lightning, hail and snow, odds and ends of hay stacks, TAKING POSSESSION. ..."

2. A Treatise on the Law of Crimes by William Lawrence Clark, William Lawrence Marshall, Herschel Bouton Lazell (1905)
"Trespass in Taking Possession—In General.—To constitute larceny, the act of taking possession must involve a trespass. The property, therefore, must be ..."

3. The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon (1921)
"THE GREEKS MEANWHILE THE INDO-EUROPEAN TRIBE OF THE HELLENES WAS TAKING POSSESSION OF GREECE THE Pyramids were a thousand years old and were beginning to ..."

4. The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon (1921)
"THE GREEKS MEANWHILE THE INDO-EUROPEAN TRIBE OF THE HELLENES WAS TAKING POSSESSION OF GREECE THE Pyramids were a thousand years old and were beginning to ..."

5. Introduction to American Law: Designed as a First Book for Students by Timothy Walker, Clement Bates (1887)
"Larceny at common law is the wilful wrongful taking possession of the goods of ... To constitute larceny, there must be a taking possession of the goods of ..."

6. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1904)
"It can scarcely be said that the enforcement of a lien by the taking possession, with the consent of the 196 US mortgagor, of after-acquired property сот- ..."

7. Correspondence of William Pitt: When Secretary of State, with Colonial by William Pitt, Gertrude Selwyn Kimball, Great Britain Foreign Office (1906)
"... (or, in your Absence, with the Commanding Officer at Guadalupe,) the most speedy and effectual Means of taking Possession of the Island of Dominique, ..."

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