The legal owner of the property (the "trustee") has the right to possession, the privilege of use, and the power to convey those rights and privileges.
As someone from Russia, which has been ruled by an alt-right autocratic regime for 17 years, I have the privilege of being able to convey messages from the future to my friends in the US and Europe.
Once the Roman system had identified the proprietarius (the owner), it was loath to let him convey anything less than all the rights, privileges, and powers that he had in the thing.
All this would have been an arid affair if Mr Stillman were not so adept at creating characters who convey a certain "fin de siecle" air of privilege and intellectual disaffection.
The legal concept of property in the West is characterized by a tendency to agglomerate in a single legal person, preferably the one who is currently in possession of the thing in question, the exclusive right to possess, privilege to use, and power to convey the thing.
These privileges, and the aura of omnipotence that they convey, have made such plates highly coveted among non-military officials and members of the public.
Not surprisingly, the Met's show conveys the aura of privilege and the luxury of court life, private chapels and wonder cabinets.
The law says only the federal government has the "exclusive privilege of conveying by post, from one place to another", most letters.
In this way, the appropriation paintings show the ways cultural values and privilege are conveyed in Western art is through appropriation, a process that creates perpetual idealizations of beauty, race and sexuality.
My duty and my privilege was to hear them at first hand, to take notes and try to convey the historical truth.
