4.2 Possession

The Code's possessory law: possession = physical control + the intention to hold for oneself (corpus + animus); possession protected even against the owner until lawful eviction (the possessor's remedies: recovery of possession, the trespass actions); possession as prima facie evidence of ownership; the types (actual/constructive; immediate/mediate — the tenant immediate, the landlord mediate; lawful/wrongful — even the wrongful possessor protected against strangers). The critical study: the possessory suit as the fast, fact-led weapon of Nepali litigation vs. the slow, document-led title suit — the Code's remedial design shaping practice.