The legal definition of ownership is that which you control.
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Unfortunately, many legal systems conclude otherwise. For example, in Canada, you don’t actually ‘own’ property - it is a right granted (revoked) by the Crown. People in the Province of British Columbia are waking up to a nasty surprise that they don’t actually own their land, so can’t get mortgage renewals.
Yikes...
This is over the indigenous land claims?
Yup. I discovered I live on unceded territory. And the Supreme Court, making the favourable rulings, has declared itself the highest authority in the land - independent and above elected government.
So they're just going to seize your property? And you get nothing?
Yup. Just happened this summer where I grew up. A deed holder got kicked off their property.
Oh damn…