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proprietorship|prəʊˈpraɪɪtəʃɪp|
[f. as prec. + -ship.]
1. The position or condition of a proprietor; ownership. (In earlier quots. in reference to the N. American colonies: see proprietor 1.)
1669J. Locke Draft Const. Carolina §6 in 33 Dep. Kpr. Rep. 258 Those who are then lords proprietors shall not have power to alienate or make over their proprietorships. 1790Lunenburg (Mass.) Proprietors' Rec. (1897) 304 An act..for the final Settlement of the Proprietorship of the Town of Lunenburg. 1817Cobbett Wks. XXXII. 17 Mr. Hammond..offered to me the proprietorship of one of those papers as a gift. 1848Dickens Dombey v, With an air of joint proprietorship with Richards in the entertainment. 1866Rogers Agric. & Prices I. iii. 62 As a rule..whenever peasant proprietorship is prevalent..hired labour..is scarce and dear. 1886Act 49 & 50 Vict. c. 33 §7 To prove the existence or proprietorship of the copyright of any work first produced in a foreign country.
2. A piece of land owned by a proprietor.
1837J. E. Murray Summer in Pyrenees II. 135 Divided as the soil is into small proprietorships, each owner of an arpen of land possesses a horse. |