Brought increased liberty and stability. [1] First private property consisted of things personally touched. [2] Food was man’s first. [3] Institution came with agriculture. [4] Methods of handling early property disputes. [5] Regarded as spiritual handicap. [6] Respected because supposed charged with owner’s personality. [7] Sleeping space was one of earliest. [8]
Essential to modern national life. [9] Institution of self-maintenance. [10] Man craves right to use, control, sell, and bequeath. [11] Necessitated government. [12] Right to private property not absolute, but all government, liberty, and happiness have grown up around. [13]
See also: UB 69:9.