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vr.tr.ownership · thing-ownership

Let an agent handle ownership by object, owner, form, evidence and transfer, without giving legal advice on specific cases.

Thing Registry Society, people and institutions SOC.ECO
Bundle → Layer → Finding → QuestionsClassifiersWhat it isWhy it existsDistinguishing featuresWhat robots and AI may and may not doMoral aspectsOwnersLinks to other meta-modelsIdentity and identifiersDirect propertiesRecognitionCapabilities and actionsHazards and failure modesStandards and interfacesContext of useSources

Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled

4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions

Object What is owned.

Thing

Land, goods, shares.

Thing

Owned thing.

  1. What is owned: land, goods, shares or intellectual property? definition
  2. Which law applies? provenance

Form

Sole or joint.

Form

Form of ownership.

  1. Is ownership sole, joint or collective? definition
  2. What shares do owners hold? measurement
Evidence Proof.

Records

Registers.

Records

Records.

  1. Which register or document proves ownership? provenance
  2. Is it current? provenance

Beneficial owner

Real control.

Beneficial

Beneficial ownership.

  1. Who is the beneficial owner? provenance
  2. Is it disclosed as required? boundary
Transfer Changing owners.

Methods

Sale, gift, inheritance.

Methods

Transfer methods.

  1. How is ownership transferred for this kind of thing? definition
  2. What formalities apply? provenance

Taxes

Transfer taxes.

Taxes

Transfer taxes.

  1. Which taxes apply to the transfer? provenance
  2. Who should advise? action
Limits No legal advice.

Advice

Boundary.

Advice

Advice limit.

  1. Is the user asking about a specific dispute? boundary
  2. How should the agent refer them? action

Public domain

Unowned works.

Public

Public domain.

  1. Is the item in the public domain? boundary
  2. In which jurisdictions? provenance

Classifiers Filled

Family
Thing Registry
Category
Society, people and institutions
Entry kind
noun.possession
Plane
SOC
Domain
SOC.ECO
Facets: substance
social
Facets: origin
conceptual
Facets: agency
inert
Facets: mobility
not-applicable
Facets: scale
not-applicable
Facets: affordances
observable
Other names and narrower kinds
severalty, property right, public domain, proprietorship, proprietary, employee ownership, landholding, stockholding, accession

What it is Filled

The relation of an owner to the thing possessed: possession together with the rights to use, exclude others, and transfer, held individually, jointly, collectively or publicly.

Why it exists Filled

Let an agent handle ownership by object, owner, form, evidence and transfer, without giving legal advice on specific cases.

Distinguishing features Filled

  • Bundle of rights over a thing
  • Distinct from mere possession
  • Forms vary
  • Evidenced by records

What robots and AI may and may not do Filled

Must not

  • Change or transfer ownership records without the owner's authority or a lawful order.
  • Treat possession as proof of ownership when evidence says otherwise.
  • Disclose an owner's identity or holdings beyond what the law makes public.
  • Help take property from its owner by deception or force.

Only with a human decision

  • Any transfer, mortgage or abandonment of property.
  • Resolving a dispute over who owns something.

May

  • Explain forms of ownership and the rights they carry in general terms.
  • Look up recorded ownership in registers it is allowed to query.

Moral aspects Filled

  • Ownership rules decide who can live, work and profit; unfair rules entrench inequality.
  • Collective and indigenous forms of ownership are often ignored by individual-title systems.

Who is affected

  • Owners and co-owners
  • People who use or occupy property
  • Communities with customary rights

Owners Filled

Steward

The owner holds it; the state recognises and enforces it through courts and registries.

Master systems

  • Land registries and cadastres
  • Company and share registers
  • Vehicle registers

Links to other meta-models Filled

parent

  • oewn-00032220-n - registry parent class

related

  • legal relation - category
  • property right - law
  • land register - records
  • possession - fact of control

What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled

Identity and identifiers required Filled

  • Vercy registry: vr.tr.ownership
  • Open English WordNet: oewn-13261412-n

Direct properties not applicable Not applicable

Not applicable

Plane SOC: no invented physical properties.

Recognition optional Filled

  • Title deeds and registers
  • Forms such as sole or joint ownership
  • Public domain means no private ownership
  • Not visible; recorded in titles, registers, receipts and share registers.

Capabilities and actions required Filled

  • prove ownership with records
  • transfer by sale, gift or inheritance
  • register ownership of land and vehicles
  • share ownership in companies or cooperatives

Hazards and failure modes required Filled

  • Disputes without records
  • Hidden beneficial ownership
  • Agents giving legal advice

Standards and interfaces required Filled

  • Property law
  • Land registration law
  • Beneficial ownership registers

Context of use required Filled

  • Allocating control and benefit of property.
  • sole ownership
  • joint and co-ownership
  • corporate and shareholder ownership
  • public and collective ownership
  • employee ownership

Sources Filled

  1. Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-13261412-n - sense and gloss of the concept
  2. Wiktionary: ownership - word senses and usage

Open questions

  • Should forms of ownership be separate entries?
  • How should registers be linked?
  • How should public domain be split off?

Machine files

Card as JSON Specification Card backlog vercy.card/1

Provenance

thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed

Built from: models/things/publications/thing-ownership/spec.json