Straw owner

Rarity: Common

The most frequent rarity: most Wikipedia articles become Commons.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

History and politics

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

A straw owner is a person who owns property legally or has the legal appearance of owning something but does so on behalf of another, sometimes for a fee, and typically solely to hide the identity of the effective owner.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Straw owner”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: advokatsmart.no, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.