| ownership |  Ownership is the basis for many other concepts that form the foundations of ancient and modern societies such as money, trade, debt, bankruptcy, the criminality of theft and private vs. public property. |
| ownership | Ownership is the state or fact of exclusive rights and control over property, which may be an object, land/real estate or intellectual property. |
| Paddy Ashdown | We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again.
Paddy Ashdown |
| Patrick Henry | I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.
Patrick Henry |
| Paul Erdos | Property is a nuisance.
Paul Erdos |
| Pierre de Coubertin | The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.
Pierre de Coubertin |
| Pierre-Joseph Proudhon | Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon |
| Pierre-Joseph Proudhon | Property is theft.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon |
| Pierre-Joseph Proudhon | The possessions of the rich are stolen property.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon |
| police | Police functions include protecting life and property, enforcing criminal law, criminal investigations, regulating traffic, crowd control, and other public safety duties. |
| possession | For by her predeceasing her daughter the latter would have come into possession of the property, and, even had she only survived her mother by five minutes, her property would, in case there were no will, and a will was a practical impossibility in such a case, have been treated at her decease as under intestacy. |
| possession | I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.
John Perry Barlow
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| Potter Stewart | In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.
Potter Stewart |
| Potter Stewart | The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.
Potter Stewart |
| produce | We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again.
Paddy Ashdown
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| prompted | In this instance I am not prompted by curiosity, I act on the part of Lord Godalming, who wishes to know something of the property which was, he understood, lately for sale. |
| property | A murder inquiry begins after the bodies of a woman and child are found at a property near Southampton. |
| property | According to Adam Smith, the expectation of profit from "improving one's stock of capital" rests on private property rights. It is a belief central to capitalism that property rights encourage the property holders to develop the property, generate wealth, and efficiently allocate resources based on the operation of the market. |
| property | Certainly, sir, said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly gained property under his arm. |
| property | I answered that it had ceased to be a private matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was national property. |
