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Ownership
(redirected from Right of ownership)

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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, 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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City of Eugene: Plaintiff alleges defendant previously deeded to the plaintiff certain real property with unconditional right of ownership.
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M'Intosh (1823), Chief Justice John Marshall substituted the right of occupancy for the right of ownership.
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The Second Circuit Court of Appeals and the Ninth Circuit have held that the right to transfer property is a fundamental right of ownership and that any restriction on that right affects the value of the property.
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