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.