As explained previously, the granting of prospecting or mining rights does not as such confer ownership of unsevered minerals.

Nothing conferring real ownership of the product anyway.

A University of Southern California researcher has won two patents that may be the first to confer ownership to an herb as a medicine.

It seems to confer "ownership" on a particular word or phrase - deciding, in effect, who gets to define it.

In 1901, the US Supreme Court concurred with the finding of the lower courts that a U.S. Government patent of ownership conferred absolute ownership, and they were ordered ejected.

Possession did not, however, confer ownership.

The order does not confer ownership of the seabed, but is designed to stop rustling of stock introduced to the sea.

"Does performing an existing effect, or variation thereof, confer upon the performer of it ownership of that effect, or the exclusive and perpetual right to all subsequent interpretations of it?"

Such tenures, even the highest one of "feudal barony", never conferred ownership of land but merely ownership of rights over it, that is to say ownership of an estate in land.

It is this House that will confer ownership.