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be private, collective or
common and the property
may be objects, land or
intellectual
property.
Determining ownership in
law, involves determining
who has certain rights and
duties over the property.
The question of ownership
reaches back to ancient
philosophers, Plato thought
private
property
created,
divisive inequalities, while
Aristotle
thought
private
property enabled people to
receive the full benefit of
their labor. Ownership is the
basis
for
many
others
concepts
that
form
the
foundations of the ancient
and modern societies such as
money, trade, debt and
private vs. public property.
Ownership is the key building
block in development of the
capitalist
socio-economic
system. Adam Smith stated
that one of the sacred laws of
justice was to guard a
persons
property
and
possessions.
The process and mechanism
of
ownership
are
fairly
complex: one can gain,
transfer and lose ownership
in a number of ways, by
purchasing or selling it for
money, exchanging it for
other property, earn it, inherit
it, misplacing it etc.
A
cadaster
commonly
includes details of ownership,
the
tenure,
the
precise
location, the dimensions, the
cultivations if rural. The
cadaster is a fundamental
source of data in disputes
and
law
suits
landowners.
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