Proprietary

adj. Relating or pertaining to ownership, belonging or pertaining to a single individual owner.

— Proprietary articles. Goods manufactured under some exclusive individual right to make and sell them. The term is chiefly used in the internal revenue laws of the United States. See Ferguson v. Arthur, 117 U. S. 482, 6 Sup. Ct. 861, 29 L. Ed. 079; In re Gourd (C. Ct) 49 Fed. 729.

— Proprietary chapel. See Chapel.

— Proprietary governments. This expression is used by Blaekstone to denote governments granted out by the crown to individuals, in the nature of feudatory principalities, with inferior regalities and subordinate powers of legislation such as formerly belonged to the owners of counlies palatine. 1 Bl. Comm. 108.

— Proprietary rights. Those rights which an owner of property has by virtue of his ownership. When proprietary rights are opposed to acquired rights, such as easements, franchises, etc., they are more often called "natural rights." Sweet.

n. A proprietor or owner; one who has the exclusive title to a thing; one who possesses or holds the title to a thing in hls own right. The grantees of Pennsylvania and Maryland and their heirs were called the proprietaries of those provinces. Webster.