Provenance is important in determining the authenticity of an object, since the further back one can trace ownership, the greater the likelihood it is genuine.

He's not content to go back a century to trace ownership, he's going back to the beginning of time.

That is done, he said, by tracing ownership of the property backward in time for about 40 years.

We traced ownership through a bunch of blinds to a Gilberto Ornelas.

These entities are designed to make it difficult to trace ownership - and therefore tax liability - of the assets.

The police later traced ownership of the motorcycle to Mr. Amrozi.

But the techniques available to trace ownership make the intelligence part of gun enforcement easier than that of drug interdiction.

Though there is a procedure to determine each object's fate, the law is not primarily designed to trace ownership.

A check of marine records by the agent's partner traced prior ownership to Albert Einstein.

It would be necessary, then, to trace ownership of the boat indirectly.