Anthropology, Education, Sociology, and Social Phenomena

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.

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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.

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3 entry terms
  • Property Rights
  • Property Right
  • Rights, Property

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9 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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med or non-med contexts

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  • Hospital Administration (1966-1967)

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  1. I01w.880w.604.583w.594w
  2. N04w.452.633w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Ownership. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D010067. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D010067
  2. Ownership. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ownership
  3. Ownership. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6498684