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Beneficial ownership


  • Here are entered works on the legal right to the enjoyment of property to which another person holds legal title.
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    • found: Work cat: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Outside perspectives on the collection of beneficial ownership information, 2019.
    • found: Miller, Rena S. Beneficial ownership transparency in corporate formation, shell companies, real estate, and financial transactions, version 1, 2019:p. 1 (beneficial ownership refers to the natural person or persons who invest in, control, or otherwise reap gains from an asset, such as a bank account, real estate property, company, or trust)
    • found: Cervantes, Marcos. Interpreting the concept of "beneficial ownership," 2009:p. 22 (the expression "beneficial ownership" first appeared in the OECD Model Treaty in 1977; has its origins in English trust law, where it was contrasted with the concept of "legal ownership")
    • found: Cambridge Dictionary online, Oct. 3, 2019(beneficial ownership: the right to receive profits, income, interest, etc. from a property or investment that you own)
    • found: BusinessDictionary website, Oct. 3, 2019(beneficial ownership: owning or having control over voting shares of a security)
    • found: Wikipedia, Oct. 3, 2019(beneficial ownership: a term in domestic and international commercial law that refers to anyone who enjoys the benefits of ownership of a security or property, without being on the record as being the owner)
    • found: Black's law dictionary, 1999(beneficial ownership: a beneficiary's interest in trust property; trust: 1. the right, enforceable solely in equity, to the beneficial enjoyment of property to which another person holds the legal title)
    • notfound: Web. 3
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    • Here are entered works on the legal right to the enjoyment of property to which another person holds legal title.
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    • 2019-10-03: new
    • 2020-01-21: revised
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