Lexic.us

Definition of Private property

1. Noun. Movable property (as distinguished from real estate).

Definition of Private property

1. Noun. Property to which individuals or corporations have certain exclusive property rights, but do not necessarily possess. ¹

2. Noun. Property to which the state or other public organizations do not have exclusive property rights. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Private Property

Literary usage of Private property

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"There were some who asserted that the Roman law derived private property solely from the right of first occupation (jus primi occupan- tis), as for instance ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"There were some who asserted that the Roman law derived private property solely from the right of first occupation (jus primi occupan- tis), as for instance ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"There were some who asserted that the Roman law derived private property solely from the right of first occupation (jus primi occupan- tis}, as for instance ..."

4. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, Charles M. Barnes (1884)
"quire the assumption of private property ; but if they should take it for a purpose not of a public nature, as if the legislature ..."

5. Property and Contract in Their Relations to the Distribution of Wealth by Richard Theodore Ely, Samuel Peter Orth, Willford Isbell King (1914)
"We have seen the advantages of private property. Socialists frequently claim, however, that these advantages of private property simply emphasise the ..."

6. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1921)
"106-107—Land Warfare, §§ 407-415—Bentwich, The Law of private property in War (1907)—Borchard, § 104—See also the monographs of Rouard de Card, Bluntschli, ..."

7. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1903)
""to provide a uniform method of exercising the right of condemning, taking, or damaging private property." It was also suggested that the defendant company ..."

8. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... in the United States], and while recognizing the supremacy of the State over private property, forbids such property to be devoted to mere political or ..."

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