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Definition of Owners
1. owner [n] - See also: owner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Owners
Literary usage of Owners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"With regard to England, the twelve largest owners hold in the aggregate ...
The pro- jion.ani portion of owners of land to inhabited houses is ..."
2. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1903)
"The number operated by owners has increased during the same period one per cent,
... In Iowa, in 1880, 76.2 per cent of the farms were operated by owners, ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"It was ex parte; neither the owners of the property nor the authorities of the
... Much of this property was restored to the legal owners by order of either ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Personal Property by Horace Edwin Smith, George Lawyer (1908)
"owners in common of personal property may maintain a suit in equity for ...
Part-owners of ships.—A ship is a personal chattel; and when owned by two or ..."
5. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie (1890)
"Eights of Ticket owners or Shareholders. ... owners of tickets or shares in
lotteries authorized by law have the right to a compliance with and can enforce ..."
6. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"When a ship ia sent through a public crowded harbor, her owners are bound ...
In no view of the case can the ship be made responsible, or her owners liable ..."
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