In England ( with the exception of Lancashire, Manchester and Cornwall ), the Treasury Solicitor is the Crown's nominee for the collection and disposition of ownerless property ( " bona vacantia " ).
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Ownerless, the books are scattered under their beds, on the cabinets, under the TV stand, in the storeroom; they even threaten to claim the limited floor space of my art studio next to their room.
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Now, just as the currency has declined, the team has regressed into a low-budget orphan of the sport, an ownerless ward of the baseball court, having spent the last three seasons on financial life support.
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The buildings were also used for decades as a store for works of art that had been looted by the Nazis and classified by the Austrian State as " ownerless " ( " " herrenloses Kunstgut " " ).
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A " waif " was an item of ownerless and unclaimed property found on a landowner's territory, while a " stray " referred to a domestic animal that had wandered onto the same land.
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The rebel Serbs who long held this town have fled before the Croatian army, leaving their washing still soaking in buckets, their food still sitting on stoves, and their now ownerless pigs and chickens meandering aimlessly among deserted houses.
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The term can be contrasted with res nullius, the concept of ownerless property, associated for example with terra nullius, the concept of unowned property by which British settlement in Australia was based, despite being home to indigenous peoples.
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As a consequence of this quarrel the Americans did not return after 1924 and the well-shaped paving blocks of this ownerless area were pulled up and used for road building or for modern buildings in Yalva?as late as the 1970s.
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The bill, which Adkins labeled " a Hancock bill, " would _ if passed _ effectively allow the insurer to go " ownerless " and would strip policyholders of the right to the insurer's surplus, he said.
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"The sexual connotation we're up in arms about now doesn't really address the other issues, about this whole generation of psychological latch-key children, " she said, referring to the doll's parentless, or ownerless, state.
