Property
Property is any physical or intangible entity that is owned by a person or jointly by a group of people or a legal entity like a corporation. Depending on the nature of the property, an owner of property has the right to consume, sell, rent, mortgage, transfer, exchange or destroy it, or to exclude others from doing these things.
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Some articles on property:
... political thinkers who believe that natural persons enjoy rights to own property and to enter into contracts, there are two views about John Locke ... of capitalist market economy is the functioning state protection of property rights in a formal property system where ownership and transactions are clearly recorded ... These property rights and the whole formal system of property make possible Greater independence for individuals from local community arrangements to protect ...
... situation in which a government regulates a property to such a degree that the regulation effectively amounts to an exercise of the government's eminent domain power without actually divesting the ...
... and Britain began to challenge laws that denied them the right to their property once they married ... the United States and the British Parliament began passing statutes that protected women's property from their husbands and their husbands' creditors ... laws were known as the Married Women's Property Acts ...
... The vote was limited to male British subjects aged 21 or over who owned or rented sufficient property, and were not imprisoned for a serious offence ... Communally owned land was excluded from the property qualification, thus disenfranchising most Māori (indigenous) men ... miner's licenses who met all voting qualifications except that of property ...
... Immediately threatening to life, health, property or environment ... Have already caused loss of life, health detriments, property damage or environmental damage Have a high probability of escalating to cause immediate danger to life ... state statutes as "a condition where life, health or property is in jeopardy, and the prompt summoning of aid is essential." Whilst most emergency services ...
More definitions of "property":
- (noun): A construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished.
Example: "Self-confidence is not an endearing property"
Synonyms: attribute, dimension
- (noun): Any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or movie.
Synonyms: prop
- (noun): A basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class.
Example: "A study of the physical properties of atomic particles"
- (noun): Something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone.
Example: "That hat is my property"; "he is a man of property"
Synonyms: belongings, holding, material possession
Famous quotes containing the word property:
“By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot enquire into whether the abolition of private property is expedient or advantageous. But I am able to recognize that the psychological premises on which the system is based are an untenable illusion. In abolishing private property we deprive the human love of aggression of one of its instruments ... but we have in no way altered the differences in power and influence which are misused by aggressiveness.”
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)
“It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.”
—Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)