proprietorship

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I assume that the only business formation allowed is a Sole Proprietorship or a family Partnership.

From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2016

Proprietorship of the land was vested in the family, and then in the village community.

From The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible by Newton, R. Heber

Proprietorship in the soil is never attainable by these farmers on half profits, inasmuch as the Parceria system can only exist where the soil is already exclusively vested in a planting aristocracy.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

C. C. J. Wheeler, 59 F. R. 324 Proprietorship of gratuitous photograph of actress remains with photographer, 238 1894 Social Register Assoc. v.

From Copyright: Its History and Its Law by Bowker, Richard Rogers

It seemed to Mr. Brumley's now entirely disordered mind that Sir Isaac, propped up with cushions upon a sofa in the upstairs sitting-room, white-faced, wary and very short of breath, was like Proprietorship enthroned.

From The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)