Property Right

The stocks of a variety of renewable natural resources -- including water, forests, fisheries, and numerous other species of plant and animal -- have been depleted below socially efficient levels, principally because of poorly-defined property-right regimes. ❋ Robert Stavins (2011)

"We're talking about a property-right here," Justice Antonin Scalia said bluntly. ❋ Unknown (2006)

And this, you understand, in lands where rapine and conquest, class-tyranny and priestly domination have been the custom since the dawn of history; in which no property-right can possibly trace back to any other basis than force. ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)

"Yes; property-right in land is absurd," he murmured. ❋ P��o Baroja (1914)

"Oh, you '11 find there 's more than one thing about them that ain't commonplace," said the widow, with the complacent air of a person with a property-right in a novelty that is under admiring scrutiny. ❋ Unknown (1893)

The genuine pro-slavery men urged the sacredness of property as such, and the special sacredness of property-right in slaves as tacitly guaranteed by the Constitution. ❋ Elisha Benjamin Andrews (1880)

The stocks of a variety of renewable natural resources - including water, forests, fisheries, and numerous other species of plant and animal - have been depleted below socially efficient levels, principally because of poorly-defined property-right regimes. ❋ Robert Stavins (2011)