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ownership
Part of Speech: noun
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- When sitting in judgment, a cause being brought before him about some beast of burden, the ownership of which was claimed by two persons; the evidence being slight on both sides, and it being difficult to come at the truth, he ordered the beast to be led to a pond at which he had used to be watered, with his head muffled up, and the covering being there removed, that he should be the property of the person whom he followed of his own accord, after drinking. - "Sergius Sulpicius Galba (Galba) The Lives Of The Twelve Caesars, Volume 7.", C. Suetonius Tranquillus.
- The ultimate ownership of the soil, or eminent domain, remains with the people of the State in which it lies, by virtue of their sovereignty. - "The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Vol. 1 (of 2)", Jefferson Davis.
- It was the same canoe in which they had been picked up and saved by the Romp, and which Adair and Murray, who both claimed the ownership, had presented to Jack. - "The Three Commanders", W.H.G. Kingston.