legal ownership

collocation in English

meaningsoflegalandownership

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legal
adjective
uk
/ˈliː.ɡəl/us
/ˈliː.ɡəl/
connected with ...
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ownership
noun[U]
uk
/ˈəʊ.nə.ʃɪp/us
/ˈoʊ.nɚ.ʃɪp/
the fact that you ...
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(Definition oflegalandownershipfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflegal ownership

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Moreover, one may attempt to explain changes in thelegalownershipstructure in terms of the interest of an economically dominant class.
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Ultimately, the law changed and workers obtainedlegalownershipover their labor power.
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Second, the individuals who were farming the land, via their own labor or hired labor, were givenlegalownership.
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The gap betweenlegalownershiprights and actual ownership is only one part of the story.
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Later in the conversation, we learned that we had nolegalownershipin our minor children, whom we had won, in anguish, in the valley of death.
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In other cases the older people delayed relinquishinglegalownershipof the farm for as long as possible, in order to retain some degree of control.
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There are other important matters, such as thelegalownershipof the copyright of the sound record, privilege—which has been raised already—and accommodation.
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In all these transfers thelegalownershipof the ships was changed.
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The fact is, however, that thelegalownershipof the animal is increasingly irrelevant so far as enforcement is concerned.
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The regulation does not require the department to establish thelegalownershipof specimens and the department does not maintain a register of stolen birds.
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The question of thelegalownershipof moneys standing in a wife's name in a co-operative society is a question of fact in each case.
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I do not think that there is any convincing evidence that the private andlegalownershipof handguns is linked to crime.
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I do not think that thelegalownershipof land is very relevant to the question of food supplies.
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Although no change oflegalownershipis made by the arrangement, ownership is the least important thing about these works of art.
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The value of this asset is much wider than thelegalownershipand the rights of angling.
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A gift involves making over fulllegalownershipof a thing so that the recipient is entitled to do what he likes with it.
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It is a creation of a way of ownership that is based on an understanding of the difference betweenlegalownershipand equitable ownership.
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The register is concerned withlegalownershiprather than beneficial or equitable ownership.
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