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Definition of Owner

1. Noun. (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business. "He is the owner of a chain of restaurants"

2. Noun. A person who owns something. "Who is the owner of that friendly smile?"

Definition of Owner

1. n. One who owns; a rightful proprietor; one who has the legal or rightful title, whether he is the possessor or not.

Definition of Owner

1. Noun. One who owns (something). ¹

2. Noun. (context: nautical, slang) captain of a ship ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Owner

1. one that owns [n -S] - See also: owns

Lexicographical Neighbors of Owner

owly eied own own(a) own controls own goal own goals own right own up ownability ownable

ownage owndom owndoms owne owned owner (current term) owner-driver owner-occupied owner-occupier owner-operator

ownerless ownerlessness owners ownership ownership equity ownerships ownest owneth owning ownness

Literary usage of Owner

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: In the by John Tracy Atkyns, Philip Yorke Hardwicke, William Newnam, Great Britain Court of Chancery (1781)
"... cafes have never been extended fo far as where par- quietly. ties have treated upon an agreement for building, and the owner has not come to an ..."

2. The Law Reports by James Redfoord Bulwer (1872)
"At the hearing, tho appellant contended that he was not such " owner " as s. 51 of tho Metropolitan Building Act contemplated, ..."

3. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1915)
"The increasing demand for house room due to growing population will not be met unless rentals are high enough to make good the owner's outlay for taxes. ..."

4. The Law of Railways: Embracing Corporations, Eminent Domain, Contracts by Isaac Fletcher Redfield (1869)
"In some cases in this country it has been held that the railway and the adjoining land-owner are to defray equal proportions of the expense of maintaining ..."

5. Engineering and Architectural Jurisprudence: A Presentation of the Law of by John Cassan Wait (1897)
"owner may Adopt such Formalities and Make such Requirements as he Pleases.—Advertisement and proposal for private work are lues formal and ceremonious than ..."

6. A Treatise on the Law of Building and Buildings: Especially Referring to by Augustus Parlett Lloyd (1888)
"Form of Notice to owner.1 BALTIMORE, July 5, 1887. Mr. JNO. WHITE : Dear Sir, — I desire to notify you that I intend to lay a lien, as allowed by the ..."

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