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Ownership definition

What does Ownership mean? In legal practice, ownership describes who has the bundle of rights over property: to possess, use, enjoy income, exclude others, transfer, or charge it, subject to law and third‑party rights (such as easements/servitudes, leases and security interests). It is a descriptive expression used across contexts (land, goods, shares, intellectual property), rather than a single statutory definition, though related concepts are defined in legislation and case law (for example, beneficial ownership in anti‑money laundering/PSC regimes and land registration rules). Across England & Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland, lawyers commonly distinguish legal ownership (title shown on a register, deed or share register) from...

Mines and minerals in England and Wales: definitions, ownership, severance, drafting of exceptions/reservations, registration, manorial rights and trespass

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What are mines and minerals? Mines

There is no single settled definition of the term ‘mine’. It is a protean expression (ie one that derives its sense from the context in which, or—as Lord Halsbury put it in Glasgow v Farie—the intention with which, it is employed). Particular statutes (eg the Mines and Quarries Act 1954, the Coal Industry Act 1994 (CIA 1994), the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted development) Order 1995, SI 1995/418, and the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995, SI 2015/596) may attribute ‘mine’ a specific meaning for the purposes of that enactment. Likewise, albeit infrequently, an instrument may define ‘mine’ for that instrument’s purposes. Where there is no express definition, the term ‘mine’ takes its sense from the accompanying words used in the relevant statute or document, and from the factual circumstances. Thus, both language and situation shape how the word should be read. All that said, in everyday usage the word ‘mine’ is most often and generally understood to mean an underground working created for the extraction of minerals...

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