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PROPERTY

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 441 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PROPERTY  , that which is peculiarly one's own, that which belongs to or is characteristic of an individual . The Latin proprietas (formed from

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pro prius, one's own, possibly derived from props, near) in
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post-Augustan times was extended to ownership and rights of possession . It is thus, in law, the generic
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term for rights of ownership and for things subject to the rights of ownership . It is " the most comprehensive of all terms which can be used, inasmuch as it is indicative and descriptive of every possible
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interest which the party can have " (see Langdale, M . R., in Jones v . Skinner, 1835, 5 L . J . Ch . 90) . In
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Roman law and in
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modern systems of law based on it, property is divided into " movables " and " immovables "; in
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English law, on the other hand, the division is into
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personal property, including chattels real, and real property (see PERSONAL PROPERTY and REAL PROPERTY) . Theatrical usage has given a specific meaning to the word, that of any article used on the stage during the performance of a
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play .

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