part-ownern.
/pɑːtˈəʊnə/, U.S. /ˈpɑrtˈoʊnər/ A person who owns something in common with another or others; any of two or more joint owners or tenants in common.
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the mind > possession > possessor > [noun] > owner > joint
part-owner1562
co-proprietor1796
co-owner1858
1562 Act 5 Eliz. c. 5 §8 Bottoms whereof..Strangers born then be Owners, Shipmasters or Part-owners.
1605 Famous Hist. Capt. Stukeley l. 1919 Sir, your negatiue is of no force you are part-owner haplie of the ship.
c1677 in A. Marvell Acct. Growth Popery (1678) 62 The John and Elizabeth, English built, Thomas Rising, Master and part-Owner.
1705 Boston News-let. 20 Aug. 2/1 The Privateer..had..taken a Briganteen, one Mason Master, belonging to Boston, on Board whereof was Mr. John Vryling, Merchant and part Owner whom they left there.
1770 J. Woolman Jrnl. (1971) x. 156 He told me there was a Friend in town who was part owner of the said vessel.
1817 W. Selwyn Abridgem. Law Nisi Prius (ed. 4) II. 1273 If one of two part-owners of a chattel sue alone for a tort, and the defendant do not plead in abatement, the other part-owner may afterwards sue alone.
1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) ix. 79 ‘Lovely Peg’, the accomplished daughter of the master and part-owner of a Newcastle collier.
1885 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 15 65 A part-owner might be compelled to incur expense against his will.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 417/2 Includes farms operated by owners, part-owners and tenants, and managers.
1966 T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 v. 119 He was part-owner here with a yucateco who still believed in the Revolution.
1994 C. Mitchell Law Subrogation 14 These cases..provide an equitable exception to the doctrine of merger for the benefit of part-owners of property.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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