If I were to cast an instant or sorcery my opponent controls, would the card that I cast belong to them? Or me?
Same as above, hypothetically lets say I have a card that says I can look through my opponents hand or graveyard, and play an instant or sorcery without paying it's mana cost. Would I be casting that card for me? Or would I be giving them another chance to use it? Plus there's a planeswalker jace ability, that says he may look through each opponents library and exile a card, and he may cast those cards without paying their mana cost. Would he be casting them for him? Or would I get to use the card?
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Unless your playing with some of the very old cards from the very first editions all cards from your deck are yours. Even if you summon something & someone else takes control of it you are still the owner, they are the controller. When Jace exiles a card he gets to play it , select it's target & control the effect of the card. If you control Jace then your the one making those decisions.
If you take a card from an oponent & play it you get to control it & it's effects, however the other player is still the owner. If another card says, return ( such & such ) to owners library/graveyard/hand , even if the controller of that card is a different player , it goes back to the owners library/graveyard/hand.
If the card were to be destroyed or exiled or otherwise removed from the field, it goes to it's original owners appropriate zone.
If it comes onto your side of the field and you're the one who activated it, then the spell is being used by you. (If you have a heroic creature on your field and your opponent has a card that says "Untap target creature, Draw a card", you can target your own creature and heroic will activated and you will draw a card. If your opponent or anyone thats not you targeted the heroic card, heroic ability would not activate)
So he's not casting it for you, you are casting it.
If you wanted the opponent to cast it, you could take control of their turn. There's a card to do it, but i'm not sure what its called.
if the card belongs to a person they are the "owner" the person USING the card is the "controller"
Bribery is a good example of this, it steals a creature from your opponents deck and puts it into play under your control. You are now the controller but they are still the owner so if it gets boomeranged it goes back to your opponents hand.
the card Kiyan is talking about taking control of a player is Mind Slaver witch can be used to force your opponent to play things but usually just a means to muddle up the next few turns or provide a lockdown