property rights

1. The legal limits governing the use and control of economic resources by individuals and corporations .

Example Sentences

Like all the Founders, Adams wanted property rights protected and he wanted everyone to be a property holder.

From The Daily Beast

Yet, I see this new disregard for such property rights as sinister in every way.

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Gone, too, are the heretofore immutable protections of intellectual property rights.

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Some said that they could not answer questions because intellectual property rights were involved.

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They also turned out to be very useful to steal, since the original owner had no way to prove their property rights.

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This law puts man and woman in the same position, as far as property-rights and their remedies are concerned.

From Project Gutenberg

Second, there are property rights, of which every marriage is a tangle, and the settlement of which the law should always oversee.

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In particular, the administration of the ports shall not prejudice any property rights of the French or Baden railroads.

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This reckless disregard of property rights was of course the direct result of the child's environment, but must be corrected.

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Last week this State Legislature passed a law giving wives equal property rights, and to mothers equal baby rights with fathers.

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