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Property

A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

That which is proper or peculiar to one own; that to which one has an unrestricted the right by virtue of which a thing belongs own; ownership; dominion. Considered as property is every kind of valuable thing mixed.

In old English law

The ownership of chattels, to estate, which denoted an interest in lands.