property right

Noun

Meaning

the legal right of ownership

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[The] property right in one's own body must be said to be justified a priori, for anyone who would try to justify any norm whatsoever would already have to presuppose the exclusive right to control over his body as a valid norm simply in order to say "I propose such in such." Hans-Hermann Hoppe

We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property. Malcolm Wallop

An employer therefore has a property right to prefer whom he will, and he can prefer whom he will in terms of color, creed, race, or national origin. Rousas John Rushdoony

In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," instead of "life, liberty and property." With that vagueness, Jefferson undermined the foundation of civilization: private property right. Ilana Mercer

Along with potential property right infringements, zoning has also been criticized as a means to promote social and economic segregation through exclusion. Source: Internet

A patent protects innovations by granting a property right that gives the patent owner the right to prevent others from selling, using, or making products that contain the invention within the United States. Source: Internet

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