The name given to a work, and the right of holding a thing. Both are claims made in public.
Latin titulus (an inscription, a label, a superscription), via Old French title; the name given to a work and the legal right of holding a thing both descend from the same word for a claim set down in writing.
The name given to a work, and the right of holding a thing. Both are claims set down and made public, the way the old inscription always was.