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General owner

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

The general owner of a thing is he who has the primary or residuary title to it; as distinguished from a special owner, who has a special interest in the same thing, amounting to a qualified ownership, such, for example, as a bailee's hen.

Farmers' & Mechanics' Nat. Bank v. Logan, 74 N. Y. 581.