Property
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The right and interest which a man has in lands and chattels, to the exclusion of others.
6 Bin. (Pa.) 98; 4 Pet. (U. S.) 511; 17 Johns. (N. Y.) 283; 59 N. Y. 192; 31 Cal. 637; 11 East, 290, 518; 14 East, 370.
The right to possess, use, enjoy, and dispose of a thing in any manner not forbidden by law (56 N. Y. 268; 31 Cal. 637); the power of disposition being essential (13 N. Y. 396; 70 Mich. 537). The term is frequently applied to that which is the subject of property and in this sense it includes everything corporeal or incorporeal which is the subject of ownership.
26 Conn. 449; 84 N. Y. 565.
It includes choses in action.
23 Minn. 239.
Within legal and constitutional provisions for the protection of "property," it has been held to include the right to labor (33 Hun [N. Y.] 374), to practice a profession (90 Pa. St. 477), the right to take an appeal (57 Cal. 464). See "Real Property;" "Chattel Property."