What is "proprietorship"

Usage examples of "proprietorship".

Convention as by its predecessors, was based on the private proprietorship of land and on increasing the number of small proprietors.

His experience before the Revolution had been that of a surveyor and land agent, and in this business he had apparently gone below the surface and had thought over that great nexus of social, political, and economic questions that centre on that of the proprietorship of the soil.

Paper made with distinguishing marks to indicate proprietorship, as with the Bank of England water mark, to imitate which is a felony.

When the forces of lovelessness and greed had built up our own sordid capitalist systems, driven by invisible proprietorship, robbing the poor, defacing the earth, and forcing themselves as a universal curse even on the generous and humane, then religion and law and intellect, which would never themselves have discovered such systems, their natural bent being towards welfare, economy, and life instead of towards corruption, waste, and death, nevertheless did not scruple to seize by fraud and force these powers of evil on presence of using them for good.

Everyone referred to the baby by name, almost in a tone of proud proprietorship, but no one knew who Chun belonged to or where he or she had come from.

For a moment nobody believed that, but when asked, everybody disclaimed proprietorship of those particular issues.

The cruder early notions of resettling the land by fostering peasant proprietorship, with habitable houses and security of tenure, were already under a cloud, since it was more than suspected that they would interfere unduly with the game laws and other soundly vested interests.

Youthful ambition hardly aspired so much to the honors of the law, or the army and navy as to the dignity of proprietorship in a saloon.

It is even doubtful whether small peasant proprietorship could be maintained without these additional resources.

Rosa was excited and happy at the novelty of possession and authority, and that close sense of house proprietorship which belongs to woman.

Krystyana went to work, Annastashia claimed proprietorship of my own back.

The organization of collective bodies capable of exercising these wider proprietorships, which cannot be properly used in the common interest by uncorrelated individual owners, is the positive practical problem before the intelligent portion of mankind to-day.

Snagsby, breaking off with a mistrust that he may have unpolitely asserted a kind of proprietorship in Mr.

The King of England had, in 1606, granted charters to the two Virginia Companies, covering all the territory in dispute, and, there could be no doubt, would protect these grants and British proprietorship therein, against all comers.

Nelson was nephew and heir of Sir Thomas Temple, in whose right he claimed the proprietorship of Acadia, under an old grant of Oliver Cromwell.