[DCLXVI]

Originally Posted by robhalford88

A lien is not ownership, it is merely a security interest.

An interest is all you can have.

There are no property rights innate in objects themselves. Such rights as there are are in certain persons as against others with respect to the particular objects in question. Since property or title is a complex bundle of rights, duties, powers and immunities, the pruning away of some or a great many of these elements does not entirely destroy the title as pointed out by Professor Hohfeld in "Fundamental Legal Conceptions", 23 Yale Law Journal, 16; 11 Cal. Law Review, 369. Also in 11 Cal. Law Review, at page et seq. 369, is found a very fine discussion of the rights of a possessor in contraband property, and the conclusion is there reached that sufficient attributes of ownership are found in the article to constitute something real and tangible.
(emphasis added) People v. Walker (1939), 33 Cal.App.2d 18, 20.

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