qualified ownership

Ownership with restrictions or requirements is known as qualified ownership. It is constrained by time, the interests of a third party, or constraints on the property's usage, or shares. The opposite concept is absolute ownership. 

See:conditional ownership, joint tenancy, life estate, real property

See also: Holmes v. United States

[Last reviewed in April of 2022 by the Wex Definitions Team]

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