Public property
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
public property · private property · resolution of the army · the ordinance
in the texts
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
The distinction between property held by a whole people and property held by individuals.
We have now shown that whatever by occupation can become private property can also become public property, that is, the private property of a whole nation.
For some things were public, that is, were the property of the people (which is the real meaning of that expression), while other things were private, that is, were the property of individuals.
Anabasis
Army rule that booty seized individually during a general expedition belongs to the common body.
but whenever the entire army set out, if an individual went off by himself and got anything, it was decreed to be public property.
Thereupon the soldiers voted to present to him the sheep that were public property, and he accepted them, but gave them back again to the troops.
For a resolution had been passed by the soldiers that if any one should do any plundering on his own account when the entire army went out, what he secured was to be public property.