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Beneficial Ownership: Ownership of the benefits related to property, rather than in the property itself. For example, the beneficiary of trust income has beneficial ownership of that trust. Also, a person may have beneficial ownership of securities, such as voting rights or investment rights, without actually having his or her name on the title of the stocks.

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