Meanings of absent owner in English

The so-called absent owner of these houses is the man sitting opposite Fenwick there.

That little piece of gold seemed to fasten the dark stigma of guilt upon the absent owner of the house.

But it cost me a rare expenditure of persuasion to induce the absent owner's housekeeper to give me permission to do so.

It was the height of summer, when the carriage which bore the long absent owner to his ancestral home, neared the ancient moss-grown lodge.

I will bring in the evidence of the clerk who received these last letters from the absent owner in the field, that they are genuine.

Absent owners of cotton were looked upon by these people as public enemies and became the victims of their (mostly illegal) speculations during the rebellion.

Some times he would manage to "rescue" small pieces of furniture or engravings, which he was sure the absent owners would want him to have.