change ownership

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Shadow-fleet vessels typically change ownership multiple times, relying on shell companies in places with loose registration regulations such as Dubai, Hong Kong and the Marshall Islands, to disguise the identities of their ultimate owners.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

We all speak of real estate in terms of the real world assets that change ownership, or provide rental income for landlords and property owners.

From Salon • Jan. 19, 2025

Mac & Jack’s is not the first Seattle-area brewing company to change ownership this year.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 4, 2023

Here's what's really at stake for everyone: "...a social-media ecosystem... that might go out of business, change ownership or simply forget what they had in the first place."

From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2018

Horses are bought in almost the same manner as cattle or asses, because they change ownership by similar formalities, all of which are set forth in the book of Manilius.

From Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro by Harrison, Fairfax