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Example sentences for "ownerless"

Lexicographically close words:
owls; own; owne; owned; owner; owners; ownership; ownest; owneth; owning
  1. On the other hand there is a vast population of ownerless cats.

  2. Judging solely from my own observation, I do not think that there can be less than from eighty thousand to one hundred thousand of these ownerless cats in the metropolis.

  3. Among the free and ownerless pariah dogs of the East disease is almost unknown.

  4. If it were true that, by declaring all ownerless lands to be Government property, the Congo State had expropriated the natives, all these various legislative systems could be attacked on the same ground.

  5. It is asserted that the principle of the freedom of trade is infringed by the appropriation by the State of vacant and ownerless lands within its boundaries.

  6. If, therefore, we have in mind the sort of property that was most significant for the development of political culture, we should trace its origin to an expropriation of earlier owners rather than to an occupation of ownerless land.

  7. The origin of property, as is well known, is even to-day generally traced, from an abstract juristic point of view, to the occupancy of an ownerless piece of land.

  8. Above all, it presupposes the existence of ownerless land.

  9. And what is passing meanwhile on the ownerless island?

  10. The Ownerless Island On his betrothal to Timéa a great burden was lifted from the soul of Timar.

  11. He meant to go to the ownerless island at Ostrova--it was three years since that former visit.

  12. Timar fled to the ownerless island, and when the corpse of Krisstyan was discovered, in an advanced stage of decomposition, Timéa declared she recognized her husband's clothes.

  13. Manz and Marti were, therefore, the only ones who seriously bid on the ownerless land, and after a rather spirited contest, during which the price was driven up higher than had been supposed, it was Manz to whom it was awarded.

  14. One harvest after another went by and the two children grew steadily taller and handsomer, and the ownerless fields as steadily smaller between the two neighbors.

  15. Manz had previously drawn a straight line as boundary, and now he loaded this spot down with all these thousands upon thousands of pebbles, rocks and bowlders which he and Marti had for whole decades thrown upon ownerless soil.

  16. The chance to secure the ownerless and well-stocked canoe was by no means to be lost, but Prime saw difficulties ahead.

  17. It continued with our finding of the ownerless canoe stocked for a long journey.

  18. The most notable difference is that the metaphysical and historical jurists rely chiefly on primitive occupation of ownerless things, while the positivists have been inclined to lay stress upon creation of new things by labor.

  19. In Anglo-American law, the justification of property on a natural principle of occupation of ownerless things got currency through Blackstone.

  20. The right to use ownerless goods is a general and abstract right that requires to become specific and concrete through some title.

  21. If it be contended that labour together with the natural right to use the ownerless goods of nature have all the elements of a valid title, the assertion must be rejected as unprecise and inadequate.

  22. But the magic which enables us to cultivate ownerless land without giving rise to disputes is the same that enables us to produce without undertakers--free association.

  23. I do not ask the hundred thousand francs at present; I only demand--the ownerless island.

  24. The hoar-frost had turned the ownerless island into a silver wood; continuous mists had hung every twig with flowers of rime.

  25. You could not even take refuge in the ownerless island, for there Noemi would shut the door against you; she is a proud woman, and her love would turn to hatred.

  26. The truth is that I wanted to sell the trees of the ownerless island to a charcoal-burner to get a little money; Therese guessed at once my real object.

  27. Noemi, Almira and I got into it, and I rowed myself over to the ownerless island.

  28. As soon as the season permitted he would go away, ostensibly to Egypt, but really to the ownerless island.

  29. During the long time Timar spent in the ownerless island, he had gradually become convinced that it was by no means so concealed as to be unknown: its existence was known to a large class of visitors.

  30. I know a girl on the ownerless island--no one is more worthy of it than she.

  31. A year and a half passed away since Michael came home to the ownerless island.

  32. But the rushes round the ownerless island did not chatter like the reeds to which King Midas's barber trusted his secret.

  33. There she sought out a quiet willow grove on the Danube shore, in the part nearest to where her father, Ali Tschorbadschi, rested at the bottom of the river: as near to the ownerless island as if some secret instinct drew her there.

  34. Now a kiss on these lips would be a theft, after all that had passed on the ownerless island.

  35. Especially after the Thirty Years’ War ownerless tracts falling under this right were plentiful.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ownerless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.