Ownership

3 definitions found

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

  Ownership \Own"er*ship\, n.
     The state of being an owner; the right to own; exclusive
     right of possession; legal or just claim or title;
     proprietorship.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ownership
       n 1: the relation of an owner to the thing possessed; possession
            with the right to transfer possession to others
       2: the act of having and controlling property [syn: {possession}]
       3: the state or fact of being an owner

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

  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.