Q: If I purchase a dog and it lived in a friends house who placed themselves as owner and me as co-owner. Who’s dog is it?
Our agreement being, I buy the dog in full and he watches/takes care of the dog at his place. He takes it upon himself to register the dog under his name as the owner and my name as the co-owner even tho he did not buy the dog. He wants to end our agreement (1 1/2 Years) and pay me what I paid for the dog. I don’t want money, I want my dog back that I paid for. Who gets to keep the dog?
A: He doesn't become an owner by (falsely?) registering the dog under his name. He becomes an owner because you seem to have a deal where you share ownership of the dog. If that is the case, he can't force you to take his money, but then you have a never ending problem over sharing ownership of a dog which entitles both owners to use and enjoyment of the dog. That works if the two of you get along, but when you are in conflict, sharing the dog is just a source of problems. If either of you denies the other the benefit of ownership, you can be sued for "loss of use" of your property, at the daily rate for similar property. This is foolishness. You will be suing each other for the rest of the dog's life for its daily rental value when one of you isn't allowed by the other to spend time with it.
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