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The sign on the road leading to the city of Shilong in the Khasi hills of northeast India had a puzzling message: “Equitable distribution of self-acquired property rights.”

From Time • Nov. 4, 2013

But an exceptional class of property is recognized which is called self-acquired property.

From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Pound, Roscoe

But for a working basis he had self-acquired knowledge of the Place hitters.

From The Young Pitcher by Grey, Zane

He was extremely sensitive, petulant, and supercilious; fierce and even coarse in his attacks on opponents; boastful of his self-acquired wealth and of his intimacy with the nobility.

From McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes

We turned aside a little from our way, to visit Mr. ——, a yeoman, of whose homely and self-acquired wisdom Mr. Emerson has a very high opinion.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 by Various