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property n. anything that is owned by a person or entity. Property is divided into two types: "real property" which is any interest in land, real estate, growing plants or the improvements on it, and "personal property" (sometimes called "personalty") which is everything else. "Common property" is ownership by more than one person of the same possession. "Community property" is a form of joint ownership between husband and wife recognized in several states. "Separate property" is property owned by one spouse only in a community property state, or a married woman's sole ownership in some states. "Public property," refers to ownership by a governmental body such as the federal, state, county or city governments or their agencies (e.g. school or redevelopment districts). The government, and, in particular, the courts are obligated to protect property rights and to help clarify ownership. (See: real property, personal property, personalty, common property, community property, separate property, public property)

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property (Distinctive attribute), noun aspect, attitude, attribute, character, characteristic, disposition, distinction, distinguishing quality, distinguishing trait, earmark, feature, individuality, mark, marked feature, marked quality, peculiarity, personality, point, proprietas, quality, singularity, specific quality, style, temperament, tone, trait

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property (Land), noun acreage, acres, demesne, dominions, estate, freehold, ground, grounds, homestead, household, land, landed interests, landed property, leasehold, lot, parcel, plot, premises, real estate, real property, realty, territory, tract
Associated concepts: abandoned property, absolute propprty, accretions to property, acquisition of property, afterrcquired property, assessable property, assessed valuation of taxable property, base property, commercial property, community property, corporate property, damage to propprty, devising property, distributable property, encummrance on property, estate, execution against property, freehold, homestead, individual property, joint property, lien on property, market value, property tax, public propprty, purchase of property, separate and distinct properties, similar property, special property, specific property, suit affecting property, suit concerning property, taking of propprty for private purposes, taking of property for public use without just compensation, taxable property, title to real property, transfer of interest in property, transfer of propprty intended to take effect at death, unplatted land, urban property, value of the property
Foreign phrases: Transit terra cum onere.Land passes subbect to any encumbrances affecting it. Jus descendit, et non terra. The right descends, not the land. Regulariter non valet pactum de re mea non alienanda. It is a rule that an agreement not to alienate my property is not binddng. Cujus est solum, ejus est usque ad coelum et ad inneros. He who owns the soil owns also up to the sky above it, and to the center of the earth beneath it.

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property (Possessions), noun accessories, assets, available means, belongings, bona, chattels, effects, estate, financial resources, funds, goods, holdings, immovables, investments, material assets, movables, ownership, pecuniary resources, personal effects, personal resources, possessions, resources, tangible assets, tangibles, valuables
Associated concepts: appurtenance, articles of personalty, bequeathing property, intangibles, proceeds of property, receiving stolen property, tangible property, trust property
Foreign phrases: Nemo cogitur rem suam vendere, etiam justo pretio.No one is compelled to sell his own property, even for a just price. Quae ab hostibus capiuntur, statim capientium fiunt. Things taken from enemies immediately become the property of the captors. Duorum in solidum dominium vel possessio esse non potest. Sole ownerrhip of possessions cannot be in two persons. Jus triplex est,-propietatis, possessionis, et possibilitatis. Right isthreefold,-of property, of possession, and of possibility. Nemo alienae rei, sine satisdatione, defensor idoneus intelligitur. No one is considered a competent defender of another's property, without security. Nul charter, nul vente, ne nul done vault perpetualment, si le donor n’est seise al temps de contracts de deux droits, sc. del droit de possession et del droit de propertie. No grant, no sale, no gift, is valid forever, unless the donor, at the time of the contract, has two rights, namely, the right of possession, and the right of property. Prohibetur ne quis faciat in suo quod nocere possit alieno. It is forbidden for any one to do on his own property what may injure another's. Proprietas verborum est salus proprietatum. Propriety of words is the salvation of property. In re communi neminem dominorum jure facere quicquam, invito altero posse. One of the owners of common property may not exercise any auuhority over it against the will of another of them. Expedit reipublicae ne sua re quis male utatur. It is for the interest of the state no one should make ill use of his property. Mobilia non habent situm. Movables have no situs or local habitation. Catalla juste possessa amitti non possunt. Chattels cannot be deprived of when they are lawfully possessed. Interest reipublicae ne sua quis male utatur. It concerns the state that people do not misuse their property. Rerum suarum quilibet est moderator et arbiter. Every one is the manager and masser of his own affairs or his property. In re pari potiorem causam esse prohibentis constat. Where a thing is owned in common, it is clear that the cause of the party prohibiting its use is the stronger. In re communi potior est conditio prooibentis. In relation to property held in common, the position of the one who prohibits is the more favorable.

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See also: assets, attribute, capital, characteristic, chattel, demesne, differential, domain, dominion, effects, estate, fee, freehold, goods, grade, holding, interest, land, merchandise, money, ownership, paraphernalia, parcel, personalty, plot, possessions, premises, principal, quality, real estate, realty, remainder, resource, securities, share, specialty, stock, substance, territory, trait

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PROPERTY. The right and interest which a man has in lands and chattels to the exclusion of others. 6 Binn. 98; 4 Pet. 511; 17 Johns. 283; 14 East, 370; 11 East, 290, 518. It is the right to enjoy and to dispose of certain things in the most absolute manner as he pleases, provided he makes no use of them prohibited by law. See Things.
     2. All things are not the subject of property the sea, the air, and the like, cannot be appropriated; every one may enjoy them, but he has no exclusive right in them. When things are fully our own, or when all others are excluded from meddling with them, or from interfering about them, it is plain that no person besides the proprietor, who has this exclusive right, can have any, claim either to use them, or to hinder him from disposing of them as, he pleases; so that property, considered as an exclusive right to things, contains not only a right to use those things, but a right to dispose of them, either by exchanging them for other things, or by giving them away to any other person, without any consideration, or even throwing them away. Rutherf. Inst. 20; Domat, liv. prel. tit. 3; Poth. Des Choses; 18 Vin. Ab. 63; 7 Com. Dig. 175; Com. Dig. Biens. See also 2 B. & C. 281; S. C. 9 E. C. L. R. 87; 3 D. & R. 394; 9 B. & C. 396; S. C. 17 E. C. L. R. 404; 1 C. & M. 39; 4 Call, 472; 18 Ves. 193; 6 Bing. 630.
     3. Property is divided into real property, (q.v.) and personal property. (q.v.) Vide Estate; Things.
     4. Property is also divided, when it consists of goods and chattels, into absolute and qualified. Absolute property is that which is our own, without any qualification whatever; as when a man is the owner of a watch, a book, or other inanimate thing: or of a horse, a sheep, or other animal, which never had its natural liberty in a wild state.
     5. Qualified property consists in the right which men have over wild animals which they have reduced to their own possession, and which are kept subject to their power; as a deer, a buffalo, and the like, which are his own while he has possession of them, but as soon as his possession is lost, his property is gone, unless the animals, go animo revertendi. 2 Bl. Com. 396; 3 Binn. 546.
     6. But property in personal goods may be absolute or qualified without ally relation to the nature of the subject-matter, but simply because more persons than one have an interest in it, or because the right of property is separated from the possession. A bailee of goods, though not the owner, has a qualified property in them; while the owner has the absolute property. Vide, Bailee; Bailment.
     7. Personal property is further divided into property in possession, and property or choses in action. (q.v.)
     8. Property is again divided into corporeal and incorporeal. The former comprehends such property as is perceptible to the senses, as lands, houses, goods, merchandise and the like; the latter consists in legal rights, as choses in action, easements, and the like.
     9. Property is lost, in general, in three ways, by the act of man, by the act of law, and by the act of God.
    10.-1. It is lost by the act of man by, 1st. Alienation; but in order to do this, the owner must have a legal capacity to make a contract. 2d. By the voluntary abandonment of the thing; but unless the abandonment be purely voluntary, the title to the property is not lost; as, if things be thrown into the sea to save the ship, the right is not lost. Poth. h.t., n. 270; 3 Toull. ii. 346. But even a voluntary abandonment does not deprive the former owner from taking possession of the thing abandoned, at any time before another takes possession of it.
    11.-2. The title to property is lost by operation of law. 1st. By the forced sale, under a lawful process, of the property of a debtor to satisfy a judgment, sentence, or decree rendered against him, to compel him to fulfill his obligations. 2d. By confiscation, or sentence of a criminal court. 3d. By prescription. 4th. By civil death. 6th. By capture of a public enemy.
    12.-3. The title to property is lost by the act of God, as in the case of the death of slaves or animals, or in the total destruction of a thing; for example, if a house be swallowed up by an opening in the earth during an earthquake.
    13. It is proper to observe that in some cases, the moment that the owner loses his possession, he also loses his property or right in the thing: animals ferae naturae, as mentioned above, belong to the owner only while he retains the possession of them. But, in general,' the loss of possession does not impair the right of property, for the owner may recover it within a certain time allowed by law. Vide, generally, Bouv. Inst. Index, b. t.