I'm filing a suit in civil court, and I need to know "what is a
company that owns an establisment called?"

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 14 Dec 2005 11:13 PST

Are you thinking of the word "proprietor"?

http://onelook.com/?w=proprietor

Dear riesling-ga;

Thank you for allowing me to answer your interesting question. In
legal terminology a company that owns another outright is
traditionally called a ?parent company?. In the case of a situation
where one company has significant influence over another by virtue of
its control of the majority of stock, the controlling entity is
traditionally called a ?holding company?.

INVESTOR WORDS
http://www.investorwords.com/3587/parent_company.html
 
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://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=define%3A+holding+company

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