proprietaries

Some of those are probably silly - but the reductum argument made by the proprietaries is specious.

Higher Education Lobby, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

The proprietaries want to say that their approach to teaching is the same as traditional higher education.

Higher Education Lobby, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

But who were the proprietaries of these bones, or what bodies these ashes made up, were a question above antiquarism; not to be resolved by man, nor easily perhaps by spirits, except we consult the provincial guardians, or tutelary observators.

Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial 2007

First, it is accorded and agreed betweene the seuerall proprietaries and owners, masters and companies of the foure ships, surnamed the Primrose, the Iohn Euangelist, the Anne and the

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

So although I hunger for a chance to help, I feel constrained to stay out of it because of proprietaries.

CNN Transcript Nov 15, 2002 2002

But who were the proprietaries of these bones or what bodies these ashes made up were a question above antiquarism; not to be resolved by man nor easily perhaps by spirits except we consult the provincial guardians or tutelary Observators.

The Principles of English Versification Paull Franklin Baum

-- We wish Lieutenant Drummond would calculate the miles of newspaper columns which every club-haunter daily swallows, and the price he pays for the same to the proprietaries and the revenue.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 538, March 17, 1832 Various

But it may be, this Potter's Field was (in parte) bought with those thirtie pence, and the other parte might be the almes and giftes of the proprietaries or owners, both in the Temple of Jerusalem and publickly, for so good

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 563, August 25, 1832 Various

This ill-starred expedition was the last sent from St. Domingo against the buccaneers, who thenceforward became the masters and lord proprietaries of Tortuga.

The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

The chief newspapers, however, are controlled by wealthy proprietaries and between the Press and Labour there is an eternal conflict.

Australia As I Saw It 1924