| PERNANCY | In law, the taking into one's possession or receiving of rents, tithes, etc (8) |
| ADOPTING | Taking into one's family (8) |
| FREEHOLD | In law, the permanent and absolute tenure of land or property with freedom to dispose of it at will |
| BARRATRY | In law, the offence of vexatiously persisting with lawsuits and quarrels (8) |
| MADEOVER | Put into one's possession to be renovated (4,4) |
| MORTMAIN | In law, the state or condition of property held inalienably by a corporation, derived from a word for 'dead hand' |
| GRAVAMEN | In law, the part of a charge weighing most heavily against an accused person; from Latin, 'to load' (8) |
| ANTENNAS | Structures sending out or receiving electric waves (8) |
| CALLSIGN | Name which identifies someone sending or receiving a broadcast message (4,4) |
| MONOPOLY | Exclusive possession or control (8) |
| ORDINAND | Candidate for receiving of holy orders |
| ROTTENLY | Badly regarded at first, but collecting tithes regularly |
| BREADBASKETS | Bannetons, cobs, panniers or other woven hampers for holding loaves or serving rolls; bellies, paunches or pots resembling said punnets or receiving said crumb; or, granary nations or wheaten lands of |
| OWNERSHIP | Have some hesitation in taking a vessel into one's possession (9) |
| EWELAMB | In the Book of Samuel, symbolically a poor man's only possession, or one's dearest possession |
| LIEN | In law, the right to keep possession of property until the owner pays a debt (4) |
| TENURE | The possession or holding of an office or position (6) |
| INNOCENTPARTY | In law, the side which successfully obtained a divorce decree under the old system of matrimonial offence (8,5) |
| ACTUS | In law, the physical element of a crime as opposed to the perpetrator's state of mind (mens rea) (5) |
| REUS | In law, the physical element of a crime as opposed to the perpetrator's state of mind (mens rea) (4) |
