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Property
PROP'ERTY, n. [This seems to be formed directly from proper. The Latin is proprietas.]
1. A peculiar quality of any thing; that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to it; called by logicians an essential mode. Thus color is a property of light; extension and figure are properties of bodies.
2. An acquired or artificial quality; that which is given by art or bestowed by man. The poem has the properties which constitute excellence.
3. Quality; disposition.
It is the property of an old sinner to find delight in reviewing his own villainies in others.
4. The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing; ownership. In the beginning of the world, the Creator gave to man dominion over the earth, over the fish of the sea and the fowls of the air, and over every living thing. This is the foundation of man's property in the earth and in all its productions. Prior occupancy of land and of wild animals gives to the possessor the property of them. The labor of inventing, making or producing any thing constitutes one of the highest and most indefeasible titles to property. Property is also acquired by inheritance, by gift or by purchase. Property is sometimes held in common, yet each man's right to his share in common land or stock is exclusively his own. One man may have the property of the soil,and another the right of use, by prescription or by purchase.
5. Possession held on one's own right.
6. The thing owned; that to which a person has the legal title, whether in his possession or not. It is one of the greatest blessings of civil society that the property of citizens is well secured.
7. An estate, whether in lands, goods or money; as a man of large property or small property.
8. An estate; a farm; a plantation. In this sense, which is common in the United States and in the West Indies, the word has a plural.
The still-houses on the sugar plantations, vary in size, according to the fancy of the proprietor or the magnitude of the property.
I shall confine myself to such properties as fall within the reach of daily observation.
9. Nearness or right.
Here I disclaim all my paternal care,
Propinquity and property of blood.
10. Something useful; an appendage; a theatrical term.
I will draw a bill of properties.
High pomp and state are useful properties.
11. Propriety. [Not in use.]
Literary property, the exclusive right of printing, publishing and making profit by one's own writings. No right or title to a thing can be so perfect as that which is created by a man's own labor and invention. The exclusive right of a man to his literary productions, and to the use of them for his own profit, is entire and perfect, as the faculties employed and labor bestowed are entirely and perfectly his own. On what principle then can a legislature or a court determine that an author can enjoy only a temporary property in his own productions? If a man's right to his own productions in writing is as perfect as to the productions of his farm or his shop, how can the former by abridged or limited, while the latter is held without limitation? Why do the productions of manual labor rank higher in the scale of rights or property, than the productions of the intellect?
PROP'ERTY, v.t. To invest with qualities, or to take as one's own; to appropriate. [An awkward word and not used.]
property appears in definitions for these words:
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A Abalienation Abandonment Ability Able Absolute Abstraction Accession Accident Accretion Accrue Acquisition Acred Action Active Adjective Administration Advance Advancement Affection Agrarian Alcavala Alienate Alienation Alienator Aliene Alienee All Allodium Animal Animal-flower Apportionment Assess Assessment Assessor Assign Assignee Assimilation Assizes Assurance Attachment Auction Avaricious Avariciousness Average Averaged Averaging Bailee Bankrupt-law Bankrupt-system Bargain Bargainee Bargainer Beauty Belong Belonging Beneficial Benefit Bequeath Bill Bleach Boast Book-keeping Broker Buy Can Capitalist Capture Cattle Censor Census Cession Chase Chose Church-warden Circumstance Class Colletic Color Commerce Commixture Commons Condition Confide Confiscate Conquest Conservator Convert Conveyancer Conveyancing Convoy Could Credit Cupidity Damage Dead Decree Defraud Defrauded Defrauding Depredate Depression Deprive Detriment Dilapidation Disappropriate Disinherit Dispauper Disposition Disproperty Dissipate Dissipated Disthene Divest Divisibility Dom Dower Ductility Economize Economy Effect Elastic Elasticity Elector Electricity Enable Encroach Endow Endowment Enrich Entitle Equitableness Estate Exchange Expensive Expropriate Expropriation Extension Extravagance Extravagantly Fall Fee Feud Fixity Flatter Fleece Fleecing Force Forehanded Forfeit Forfeiture Gain Garnishee Gift Give Grieve Gross Hereditament Honest Honesty Hurt Hurtful Hypothecator Immediately Income Independent Indigent Indivisibility Induce Inequality Inflection Inherit Injure Injurious Injury Injustice Insolvency Instinct Instruct Insurance Insure Integrity Interest Internal Intrusion Investment Invoice Iron Issue Joint Labor Landed Landfall Landless Larceny Literary Loadstar Lode-stone Loss Low-spirited Marque Medicinal Medicine Mesotype Minnow Misfortune Movables Necessary Negotiable Next Occupancy Occupant Occupy Of Olefiant Opulent Outrage Own Owned Ownership Oxygen Pain Parapherna Parsimonious Partake Participle Particle Particular Partnership Pay Peculate Peculiar Penalty Penury Peril Perishable Personal Pertain Petency Phlegm Physical Piracy Pirate Pledge Plight Polarization Policy Political Poor Poorness Possess Possession Possessor Possessory Postliminium Pourpresture Poverty Power Predicable Preoccupancy Pretense Private Prize Promissory Property Propriety Protect Public Publicly Publicness Punish Purchase Purchaser Quadrilateralness Qualified Quality Quantity Quest Ransom Rate Real Reality Reassurance Recaption Reinsurance Reinsure Repulsion Reputation Resource Revenue Rich Right Rightful Riot Rise Risk Ruminant Rumination Run Sacrilegiously Saxifrage Scraper Scrip Seal Seat Secure Self-defense Self-healing Sell Selling Senator Sequester Sequestration Sequestrator Settlement Sex Shareholder Smectite Some Sorry Sound Specht Specifical Squandered Statistic Statistical Statistics Steam Stock Stone Stoop Strength Subjection Subsidy Succession Successor Survey Swindle Sympathetic Tallowing Tax Tenacious Tenebrous Tenure Terminator Test Theater Theft Thermometer Thief Thine Thrift Thriftiness Thrifty Thrive Thriver Timocracy Tingent Title Tort Trade Transfer Transferable Translucency Transparency Transparent Trave Trover Trusted Unalienably Uncompounded Undistinguishable Undistinguished Unelastic Unembarrassed Uninterested Uninvested Unresponsible Unthriftiness Unthrifty Unthriving Usucaption Usufruct Usufructuary Usurp Usurpation Usurper Usurping Value Vandalism Vendue-master Verticity Vest Vesting Volatileness Wagering War Warranty Waste Wasteful Waster Without World Worldly-minded Worm-seed Wrong Wrongful
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