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Definition of Ownerless
1. Adjective. Having no owner.
Definition of Ownerless
1. a. Without an owner.
Definition of Ownerless
1. Adjective. having no owner ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ownerless
Literary usage of Ownerless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1886)
"... evidence that led to the belief that the islands were ownerless territory,
upon the repeated request of German subjects trading in the Caroline Islands, ..."
2. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"ownerless things.—Again, there are other things, in which a permanent property
may subsist, not only as to the temporary use, but also the solid substance; ..."
3. The German Civil Code by Germany (1907)
"A person who takes proprietary possession of an ownerless moveable ... A moveable
becomes ownerless if the owner gives up its possession with the intention ..."
4. The German Civil Code by Germany. (1907)
"A person who takes proprietary possession of an ownerless moveable (s) ...
A moveable becomes ownerless if the owner gives up its possession with the ..."
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