[Mbrc-nisbi] NUMBER ONE Success System

[Tommy Lee]

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Modern property rights conceive of ownership and possession as belonging to
legal individuals, even if the legal individual is not a real person.
Corporations, for example, have legal rights similar to American citizens,
including many of their constitutional rights. Therefore, the corporation is
a juristic person or artificial legal entity, which some refer to as
"corporate personhood".

Property rights are protected in the current laws of states usually found in
the form of a Constitution or a Bill of Rights. The fifth and the fourteenth
amendment to the United States constitution, for example, provides
explicitly for the protection of private property:

The Fifth Amendment states:
Nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just
compensation.

The Fourteenth Amendment states:
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or
immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any
person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.

Protection is also found in the United Nations Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, Article 17, and in the The French Declaration of the Rights of
Man and of the Citizen, Article XVII, and in the European Convention on
Human Rights (ECHR), Protocol 1.

Property is usually thought of in terms of a bundle of rights as defined and
protected by the local sovereignty. Ownership, however, does not necessarily
equate with sovereignty. If ownership gave supreme authority it would be
sovereignty, not ownership. These are two different concepts.

Traditionally, that bundle of rights includes:

   1. control of the use of the property
   2. the right to any benefit from the property (examples: mining rights
   and rent)
   3. a right to transfer or sell the property
   4. a right to exclude others from the property.

Legal systems have evolved to cover the transactions and disputes which
arise over the possession, use, transfer and disposal of property, most
particularly involving contracts. Positive law defines such rights, and a
judiciary is used to adjudicate and to enforce.
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