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Definition of Owning
1. own [v] - See also: own
Lexicographical Neighbors of Owning
Literary usage of Owning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Federal and State Constitutions: Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Francis N. Thorpe, United States (1909)
"... but this shall not be construed as authorizing any common carrier, or person
or corporation, owning or operating a railroad in this State, to receive as ..."
2. The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I by Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland (1895)
"Again, if we would paint a picture of Anglo-Saxon society as The of one in which
the land-owning unit is not an individual but a land-own- 5, a clan, ..."
3. A Political History of Slavery: Being an Account of the Slavery Controversy by William Henry Smith, Whitelaw Reid (1903)
"1479 Number owning more than two hundred and under three hundred 187 Number ...
owning more than five hundred and under one thousand 9 Number owning one ..."
4. Statistics of Coal: Including Mineral Bituminous Substances Employed in Arts by Richard Cowling Taylor, Samuel Stehman Haldeman (1855)
"The Green Ridge Improvement Company, owning 2500 acres, all of which is coal ...
The Locust-Crap Coal Company, owning 2000 acres, of which 1000 acres are ..."
5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1850)
"not only abandoned theire Prince, and left him exposed to the Enemy, William III.
but also imediately submitted to Theodore, owning his Authority. 47. ..."
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