Note 410 — Chapter XX · THE LAW OF PROPERTY.

The full power of alienation and disposition is an almost invariable element in the right of ownership, but cannot be regarded as essential, or included in the definition of it. A married woman subject to a restraint on anticipation is none the less the owner of her property, though she cannot alienate or encumber it.

Austin (II. p. 790) defines the right of ownership as a “right indefinite in point of user, unrestricted in point of disposition, and unlimited in point of duration, over a determinate thing.”