ownership claims
Declaring something yours
Ownership claims are assertions of right to possess, control, or have title to something.
The phrase appears in legal, business, and intellectual property contexts: The company's ownership claims to the patent were disputed.
Ownership claims can be formal (filed with courts or registries) or informal assertions of who something belongs to: Multiple heirs made competing ownership claims to the estate.
- title deedDocument proving property ownership
- usufructRight to another's property
- intellectual propertyLegal rights over inventions
- finders keepersDiscoverer claims ownership
- disputed territoryLand claimed by multiple parties
sovereign land · mineral rights · entitlement · indigenous rights · lien · encumbrance · property rights · patent · cultural heritage · easement · copyright · common good · feudalism · equity · trademark · social contract · kinship ties · rightful heir
ownership claimsdisclaimers
Statements denying responsibility
renunciation · relinquishment · disavowal · forfeiture · abandonment
ownership claimsabandonment
Act of leaving permanently
dereliction · renunciation · relinquishment · surrender · giving up
ownership claimspublic domain
Unprotected creative works
common ownership · communal property · collective ownership · commons · open access
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