property

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• Property — is any physical or virtual entity that is owned by an individual. An owner of property has the right to consume, sell, mortgage, transfer and exchange his or her property.cite web|url=http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/property.html|titl… …   Wikipedia

• property — prop·er·ty n pl ties [Anglo French propreté proprieté, from Latin proprietat proprietas, from proprius own, particular] 1: something (as an interest, money, or land) that is owned or possessed see also asset, estate, interest …   Law dictionary

• Property — • The person who enjoys the full right to dispose of it insofar as is not forbidden by law Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Property     Property      …   Catholic encyclopedia

• property — prop‧er‧ty [ˈprɒpəti ǁ ˈprɑːpər ] noun properties PLURALFORM 1. [uncountable] LAW all the things that someone owns: • Some of the stolen property was found in Mason s house. • The President supports a tax cut on profits from sales of property… …   Financial and business terms

• property — and property rights are central to capitalist societies. Perhaps because they are largely taken for granted in this context they have received relatively little attention from sociologists. By comparison, political philosophers and economists… …   Dictionary of sociology

• Property — Prop er*ty, n.; pl. {Properties}. [OE. proprete, OF. propret[ e] property, F. propret[ e] neatness, cleanliness, propri[ e]t[ e] property, fr. L. proprietas. See {Proper}, a., and cf. {Propriety}.] [1913 Webster] 1. That which is proper to… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• property — c.1300, nature, quality, later possession (a sense rare before 17c.), from an Anglo Fr. modification of O.Fr. propriete (12c., Fr. propreté), from L. proprietatem (nom. proprietas) ownership, property, propriety, lit. special character (a loan… …   Etymology dictionary

• property — Includes money, goods, things in action, land and every description of property, whether real or personal, legal or equitable, and whether situated in Canada or elsewhere, and includes obligations, easements and every description of estate,… …   Glossary of Bankruptcy

• property — [präp′ər tē] n. pl. properties [ME proprete < OFr proprieté < L proprietas < proprius, one s own] 1. a) the right to possess, use, and dispose of something; ownership [property in land] b) something, as a piece of writing, in which… …   English World dictionary

• Property — Prop er*ty, v. t. [1913 Webster] 1. To invest which properties, or qualities. [Obs.] Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To make a property of; to appropriate. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] They have here propertied me. Shak. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• property — [n1] possessions, real estate acreage, acres, assets, belongings, buildings, capital, chattels, claim, dominion, effects, equity, estate, farm, freehold, goods, holdings, home, house, inheritance, land, means, ownership, plot, possessorship,… …   New thesaurus