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I know from [this
question](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/14310/can-a-death-note-
have-multiple-owners) that a death note could only belong to one person at a
time, but I was wondering if the opposite was true--that one person could own
multiple death notes. Could, say, that person go around killing the owners of
death notes and stealing them in an effort to do something like own all of the
death notes?


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Can someone own multiple death notes?


Apparently yes, there are rules about how the Death Note works if someone has
more than 1. These rules are stated in [How to Use:
XXIII](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_XXIII)

> Whenever an individual with ownership of more than two Death Notes loses
> possession to one of the Death Notes, he will not be able to recognize that
> Death Note's god of death's appearance or voice anymore. The god of death
> himself will leave, but all the memory involving that Death Note will remain
> as long as he maintains ownership of at least one other Death Note.

And in [How to Use:
XXXII](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_XXXII)

> If someone possesses more than one Death Note, by visualizing the victim,
> then writing down the name in one of the Death Notes and the cause of death
> in the other, it will take effect. The order however, is unimportant, if you
> write down the cause of death in one Death Note and afterwards, write the
> name in the other, it will take effect.

We also see Light owning 2 Death Notes in Episode 25 - _Silence_ and in
Chapter 58 - _Feelings Within_. while the scenes play out differently in both
Light becomes the owner of Rem's Death Note after she has died. in _Death
Note: The Last Name_ we however never see this as Rem destroys her Death Note
in the equivalent scene.

There is however a limit of 6 Death Notes that a single persona can own. This
is because only 6 death Notes can be active as it is stated in [How to Use:
LII, Point
1](http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Rules_of_the_Death_Note#How_to_Use:_LII)

> In the event that there are more than 6 Death Notes in the human world, only
> the first 6 Death Notes that have been delivered to humans will have effect.

One can assume "ownership" will not work unless the Death Note is active, so
the 7th Death Note can probably be passed around. But when one of the
currently active 6 is removed (destroyed or taken back to the Shinigami
Realm), the person currently holding the 7th will become the owner.


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