Owner

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Owner \Own"er\, n.
     One who owns; a rightful proprietor; one who has the legal or
     rightful title, whether he is the possessor or not. --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  owner
       n 1: (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business;
            "he is the owner of a chain of restaurants" [syn: {proprietor}]
       2: a person who owns something; "they are searching for the
          owner of the car"; "who is the owner of that friendly
          smile?" [syn: {possessor}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  25 Moby Thesaurus words for "owner":
     beneficiary, cestui, cestui que trust, cestui que use, deedholder,
     feoffee, feudatory, holder, householder, laird, landlady, landlord,
     lord, master, mesne, mesne lord, mistress, possessor, proprietary,
     proprietor, proprietress, proprietrix, rentier, squire,
     titleholder
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  OWNER, property. The owner is he who has dominion of a thing real or 
  personal, corporeal or incorporeal, which he has a right to enjoy and to do 
  with as he pleases, even to spoil or destroy it, as far as the law permits, 
  unless he be prevented by some agreement or covenant which restrains his 
  right. 
       2. The right of the owner is more extended than that of him who has 
  only the use of the thing. The owner of an estate may, therefore change the 
  face of it; he may cut the wood, demolish the buildings, build new ones, and 
  dig wherever he may deem proper, for minerals, stone, plaster, and similar 
  things. He may commit what would be considered waste if done by another. 
       3. The owner continues to have the same right although he perform no 
  acts of ownership, or be disabled from performing them, and although another 
  perform such acts, without the knowledge or against the will of the owner. 
  But the owner may lose his right in a thing, if he permit it to remain in 
  the possession of a third person, for sufficient time to enable the latter 
  to acquire a title to it by prescription, or lapse of time. See Civil Code 
  of Louis. B. 2, t. 2, c. 1; Encyclopedie de M. D'Alembert, Proprietaire. 
       4. When there are several joint owners of a thing, as for example, of a 
  ship, the majority of them have the right to make contracts in respect of 
  such thing, in the usual course of business or repair, and the like, and the 
  minority will be bound by such contracts. Holt, 586; 1 Bell's Com. 519, 5th 
  ed. See 5 Whart. R. 366.