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The Law, by Bastiat
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"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."

--- Thomas Jefferson


Lesson 54 - Property Conflict Print E-mail

 

For this reason, the task of every property owner involved in any sort of conflict involving a property which they own or in which they have a property interest, ought to be to consider ways and means of bringing the conflict to a resolution and termination as quickly as possible.

Unfortunately, there are certain factors that appear, particularly (although not exclusively) in government-dominated societies, where it will appear to some to be profitable or advantageous to extend and enlarge the area of conflict.

In a larger, overall view, deliberately extending or enlarging conflict is never profitable - but it can be made to appear profitable.

Once a claim to property has been established, either through first claim or through the exchange process in which prior claims are voluntarily and willingly relinquished in favor of a new claimant, ownership of property rightfully becomes a total condition.

Sometimes, as with small or inexpensive items, the process of establishing total ownership is simple and occurs in an instant of time.

A man offers another man a few coins for an apple.  The two items are exchanged.

By this process the former owner of the apple relinquishes all his rights, title, and interest in and to the apple, and the former owner of the coins relinquishes all his rights, title, and interest in and to the coins.

Possession of each object is transferred on the spot, and ownership is established as a total condition.

 



 
 

Fundamentals of Liberty