Property
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
destroy property · private property · property · property of their goods · the right of property
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
The legal condition of individual ownership, whose origin from an original common stock is traced at length.
a general exercise of a right, which supplied the place of private property.
Things corporeal are either unappropriated, or made the subjects of private property.
At the same time, we learn how things passed from being held in common to a state of property.
The Law of Intellectual Property
Wealth that has an owner; the right of exclusive dominion, control, use, and enjoyment of a thing.
All property is wealth;
The right of property is simply the right of dominion.
The air, that a man inhales, is his, while it is inhaled.
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
The security of individuals' estates and goods, protected as a fundamental limit on the Representative and invoked by Charles as an aim of law.
That no Representative may in any wise render up, or give, or take away, any of the foundations of common right, liberty, and safety contained in this Agreement, nor level men’s estates, destroy property, or make all things common;
Thus you see that I speak not for my own right alone, as I am your King, but also for the true liberty of all my subjects, which consists not in the power of government, but in living under such laws, such a government, as may give themselves the best assurance of their lives, and property of their goods;