Usually means: Potential existence, not yet actualized.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. in posse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. in posse: Collins English Dictionary
  3. in posse: Wordnik
  4. in posse: Wiktionary
  5. in posse: Dictionary.com
  6. In posse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. In posse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. In Posse: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  9. in posse: FreeDictionary.org
  10. in posse: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. in posse: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. in posse: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (in posse)

adjective:  In possibility, having a potential to exist, in potential but not in actuality, (contradistinguished by in esse)
adverb:  In possibility, having a potential to exist, in potential but not in actuality, (contradistinguished by in esse).

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