Possession Rights Quotes

The white race were a land-loving people, and had a right to possess it because they used it according to the intentions of the Creator.

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

[Property] embraces everything to which a man may attach a value and have a right.

Private property implies exclusivity, inequality, and difference.

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man and the animal creation.

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.

Finders were keepers unless title was proven.

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

I refuse to pronounce the names of possession and nonpossession.

You've no right to walk into people's castles and take their guitars.

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.

Goods are theirs that enjoy them.

This isn't like an auction, right? You guys aren't going to take it away?

Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.

Boys, they can't take my refrigerator now. They'll never get my car now. I paid cash for 'em and they're mine, and I'm keepin' 'em!

Ownership is a very complex judicial concept.

The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession

Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time.

A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the right to what we acquire by those means without violating the similar rights of other sensible beings.

If a chieftain or a man leave his house, garden, and field and hires it out, and some one else takes possession of his house, garden, and field and uses it for three years; if the first owner return and claims his house, garden, and field, it shall not be given to him, but he who has taken possession of it and used it shall continue to use it.