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General Owner

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

The general owner of a thing is one who has the primary 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 lien. One who has both the right of property and of possession.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

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.

Defined under Owner in Black's Law Dictionary.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

The general owner of a thing is he who has the primary or residuary tille to it; as distinguished from a spectad owner, Who has a special interest in the saine thing, amounting to a qualified ownership, auch, for example, as a buailee’s Hien.