Definition of Property

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Property

That which is proper to anything; a peculiar quality of a thing; that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to it; an attribute; as, sweetness is a property of sugar.

An acquired or artificial quality; that which is given by art, or bestowed by man; as, the poem has the properties which constitute excellence.

The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying, and disposing of a thing; ownership; title.

That to which a person has a legal title, whether in his possession or not; thing owned; an estate, whether in lands, goods, or money; as, a man of large property, or small property.

All the adjuncts of a play except the scenery and the dresses of the actors; stage requisites.

Propriety; correctness.

To invest which properties, or qualities.

To make a property of; to appropriate.

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Property Quotations

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
Thomas Jefferson

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.
Ayn Rand

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
George Washington

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
Henry David Thoreau

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
Bill Gates

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Aristotle

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
Aristotle

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
Aristotle

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Property Translations

property in Afrikaans is boereplaas, plaas
property in Dutch is landgoed, boerderij, bezitting
property in Finnish is laatu, ominaisuus, maatila
property in German is Eigentum, Besitz, Eigenschaft
property in Latin is qualitas, possessio
property in Portuguese is fazenda, granja, propriedade
property in Spanish is tenencia, granja, finca, pertenencia, calidad

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