state of property

That authority and those jurisdictions all necessarily flowed from the state of property and manners just now described.

Summary forfeiture, a forfeiture to the state of property without giving the owner opportunity to be heard.

The European Union is particularly worried by the continuous confiscation by the state of property belonging to non-Muslim religious foundations.

Nozick argued that a minimalist state of property rights and basic law enforcement would develop out of a state of nature without violating anyone's rights or using force.

The men who worked the gardens were some of the poorest and least integrated of the Chinese, and the Anti-Chinese League frequently complained to the authorities about the state of properties in the Haymarket.

This is fit for kings, and rich men who represent kings, and a false state of property, to make presents of gold and silver stuffs, as a kind of symbolical sin-offering, or payment of black-mail.

But though this institution necessarily tended to strengthen the authority of the king, and to weaken that of the great proprietors, it could not do either sufficiently for establishing order and good government among the inhabitants of the country, because it could not alter sufficiently that state of property and manners from which the disorders arose.