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private property

n. 1 property to which individuals or corporations have certain exclusive property rights, but do not necessarily possess. 2 Property to which the state or other public organizations do not have exclusive property rights.

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private property

n. movable property (as distinguished from real estate) [syn: personal property, personal estate, personalty]

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Private property

Private property is a legal designation for the ownership of property by non-governmental legal entities. Private property is distinguishable from public property, which is owned by a state entity; and from collective (or cooperative) property, which is owned by a group of non-governmental entities. Private property is further distinguished from personal property, which refers to property for personal use and consumption. Private property is a legal concept defined and enforced by a country's political system.

Private Property (film)

Private Property is a 2006 French-language Belgian film directed by Joachim Lafosse. The film received the André Cavens Award for Best Film by the Belgian Film Critics Association (UCC).

Usage examples of "private property".

I don't want to help the looters to pretend that private property still exists.

It is long since I have been sensible it ought not to continue private property, and had provided that at my death, Congress should have the refusal of it at their own price.

By virtue of the Jacobin dogma, theft, usurpation, murder, take on the guise of political philosophy, and the gravest crimes against persons, against public or private property, become legitimate.

Some assert that his own father was the author of his punishment, that he tried him privately at home, and after scourging him put him to death and devoted his private property to Ceres.