Legal Ownership Quotes

That which you look upon as your own you may keep only so long as the world allows you to own it.

Because the rights to possessions are not adequately documented, assets cannot readily be turned into capital, cannot be traded outside of narrow, local circles where people know and trust each other, cannot be used as collateral for a loan, and cannot be used as a share against an investment.

I have often thought Dixie to be one of the finest songs which the Confederates have appropriated. I put the question to the Attorney General, and he determined that it is our property.

The Government, while it most sedulously and rigorously guards against the further introduction of slave, protects at the same time, by remarkable laws, the rights of the owners of that species of property in the States where it exist, and permits it transfer from one of these States to another

The moment that the incontestable fact is admitted, that the slaves are property, the law of movable property irresistibly attaches itself to them, and secures the right of carrying them from one State to another.

An infinite number of men will sell publicly and unhindered things of the very highest price, without leave from the Master of it; while it never was theirs nor in their power; and human justice will not prevent it.

A gift, bequest, or devise, made to a slave, by any one not his owner, would be void

Whoever knows how to take, to defend, the thing, to him belongs property.

Who owns your body? You or the state?

Everyone has a right to bear arms. If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who have guns are the bad guys.

There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.

You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere.

If the nest is truly empty, who owns all this junk?

Over the years, there have been challenges about who can use our name. It's quite simple: A majority of people left in the band at a certain time own the name. It's not like I'm the guy who has the name under my own contract.

What I have in my power, that is my own. So long as I assert myself as holder, I am the proprietor of the thing.

AXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.

Finders were keepers unless title was proven.

Possession is eleven points in the law.

If what you own cannot be protected, you own nothing.

I don't own any of these names. I don't own Johnny World, Johnny Mundo, John Morrison, Johnny Nitro, Johnny Blaze or Johnny Impact. None of it.

Personally I think that private property has a right to be defended. Our civilisation is built up on property, and can only be defended by private property.

Handing over a bank note is enough to make a bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realize this possession.

I refuse to pronounce the names of possession and nonpossession.

Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.