ownership

legal concept; relationship between a legal person and property conferring exclusive control
Intangible legal_term_or_legal_concept Q6498684
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ownership

Summary

ownership is a legal term or legal concept[1]. ownership ranks in the top 10% of legal_term_or_legal_concept entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (28 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • ownership's instance of is recorded as legal term or legal concept[3].
  • ownership's instance of is recorded as relation[4].
  • ownership is a type of exclusive right[5].
  • ownership is part of law of obligations[6].
  • ownership is part of property law[7].
  • ownership is part of commercial law[8].
  • ownership's said to be the same as is recorded as property[9].
  • ownership's has cause is recorded as trade[10].
  • ownership's has cause is recorded as inheritance[11].
  • ownership's has cause is recorded as creation[12].
  • ownership's has cause is recorded as original appropriation[13].
  • ownership's has cause is recorded as gift[14].
  • ownership's has cause is recorded as invention[15].
  • ownership's has cause is recorded as right of conquest[16].
  • ownership's has cause is recorded as aboriginal title[17].
  • ownership's has cause is recorded as usucaption[18].
  • ownership's has cause is recorded as discovery[19].
  • ownership's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Ownership[20].
  • ownership's facet of is recorded as right to property[21].
  • ownership's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[22].
  • ownership's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[23].
  • ownership's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[24].
  • ownership's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[25].
  • ownership's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 10[26].
  • ownership's described by source is recorded as Wex[27].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include legal term or legal concept[3] and relation[4]. ownership is a type of exclusive right[5].

Use and Application

Part of include law of obligations[6], an area of law[28]; property law[7], an area of law[29]; and commercial law[8], an area of law[30].

Influence

Things named for ownership include Warao[31], an ethnic group[32].

Why It Matters

ownership ranks in the top 10% of legal_term_or_legal_concept entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (28 views/month).[2] ownership has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] ownership is known by 50 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]

Entities named for ownership include Warao[31], an ethnic group[32].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [32] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [33] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [34] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 3d ago · AddyLockPool · 2026-10-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'az', 'ba', 'ban', 'bcl', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'ckb', 'cs', 'cv', 'de'
    Described by source → Otto's encyclopedia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary +3
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P1343]]: [[Q16939300]], Add source website and URL (via Wikidata Source Saver)"
  2. 12w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 24sAwK
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → —
    Facet of → right to property
    Said to be the same as → property
    Has cause → trade, inheritance, creation +7
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-update:1||2 */ [[Property:P2347]], mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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