absolute ownership
noun[U]
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thefactofowningsomethingcompletely, without anylimits:
Theapplicantwas notjudgedto haveabsoluteownershipof thecar, and did notthereforehave therighttosellthevehicle.
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absolute ownership
An estate held byabsoluteownership, without recognizing any superior to whom any duty is due on account thereof.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He does not thereby sell outright to the licensee the articles the latter may make and sell, or vestabsoluteownershipin them.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Yet in reality the land was the peoples own, with the king only claimingabsoluteownership.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It transferred to the tenant a portion of theabsoluteownership, and gave him something like an estate in his holding.
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But the occupier is not always the owner; what is more, there is noabsoluteownership.
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These fitted together into an almost indissoluble union; and thereforeabsoluteownershipof the soil was theoretically impossible.
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It soughtabsoluteownershipof factories and all means of production, with evasion of responsibilities and no provision made against deficits.
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We consider that the landlord'sabsoluteownershipshould be replaced by dual ownership of landlord and tenant.
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The only permissible legal estate in such things isabsoluteownership, corresponding to the fee simple in land.
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