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An instance of ownership status is the collective ascription of a relationship of legal possession of some actor over a legal object by a community. The substance of the ownership status is the communal commitment to the recognition of the relationship of possession over the designated legal object by the actor in question.

Instances of ownership status are recognizable through evidence of community members adopting the intentional stance of so-recognizing this status, as observable from direct witnesses, through the reports of competent observers or through evidence of a declarative act [e.g.: ZE20 Declarative Aquisition] initiating this status.

Instances of ownership status may come to be through a formal process such as a declarative act of taking ownership, or may have arisen through habit, fiat or be of unknown origin. Instances of ownership status may end either though a formal process, such as a new declarative act of acquisition, or may simply fade out of use, be eliminated by fiat or be of unknown reason.

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