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Because Russian, like English, uses the singular after each/every.
- Каждый собственник = each/every owner
- Not каждые собственники
The idea is distributive: you are talking about owners one by one, not as a group.
Каждый has to agree with the noun it describes.
Here, собственник is:
- masculine
- singular
- nominative
So the correct form is каждый.
Compare:
- каждый собственник — every owner
- каждая квартира — every apartment
- каждое решение — every decision
You could say that, but it is not exactly the same in nuance.
- Каждый собственник emphasizes each individual owner separately.
- Все собственники emphasizes all the owners as a group.
In rules, instructions, and legal-style language, каждый собственник is very common because it stresses that the right applies to every individual person.