Quantitative Concept
ownership
own·er·ship [ oh-ner-ship ]
Subclass of:
Principles of law and justice
Definitions related to ownership:
  • The legal relation between an entity (individual, group, corporation, or-profit, secular, government) and an object. The object may be corporeal, such as equipment, or completely a creature of law, such as a patent; it may be movable, such as an animal, or immovable, such as a building.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • The legal relation in which a person or group entity has a financial interest in, dominion of, or control over an object or property.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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