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ownership
(redirected from Posessions)

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ownership n. legal title coupled with exclusive legal right to possession. Co-ownership, however, means that more than one person has a legal interest in the same thing. (See: own)


ownership noun claim, control, dominion, holding, mastery, occupancy, possessorship, proprietorship, right of possession, seisin, tenancy, tenure, title, use
Associated concepts: absolute ownership, apparent ownerrhip, certificate of ownership, change of ownership, excluuive ownership, incident of ownership, individual ownerrhip, joint ownership, occupation, ownership rights, possession, proprietary interest, qualified ownership, silent partner, sole ownership, sole proprietor, tenancy by the ennirety, transfer of ownership, unconditional ownership, undisclosed interest, unqualified ownership
See also: adverse possession, claim, dominion, enjoyment, interest, occupancy, occupation, possession, possessions, property, right, seisin, stake, substance, tenancy, title, use

OWNERSHIP, title to property. The right by which a thing belongs to some one in particular, to the exclusion of all other persons. Louis. Code, art. 480.



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