Let no man call his own that which is common property": and by "common" he means external things, as is clear from the context.
Now according to the natural law all things are common property: and the possession of property is contrary to this community of goods.
Hence tranquillity of soul is ascribed to temperance by way of excellence, although it is a common property of all the virtues.
It was to annihilate social antagonism by a system of common property, that we undertook the experiments at all.
The trustees of the Nashoba Community, in abandoning Frances Wright's original plan of common property, acknowledge their conviction that such a system can not succeed "without the members composing it are superior beings.
The Gazette shows how impossible it is for a Community of common property to exist, unless the members comprising it have acquired the genuine Community character.
A confederacy of states, which had become possessed of such a common property, was thus bound together by an interest, the magnitude and force of which cannot now be easily estimated.
Examine Mr. Macaulay's "History of England" and you will find that the body is composed of what is common property.
During that time you may exhibit them for your own profit, but at the end of that period the clothing will become common property, as the body now is.
But this tendency to go further than other socialists, in superseding individual by common property, has repeatedly appeared in some of their most representative utterances.
But producers' wealth, they hold, should be common property, and neither be owned nor inherited by individuals.
The latifundia and slavery of the decline of the Roman empire were not succeeded by any system of common property, but by the institutions of mediaeval law which made the rights of private property more absolute and exclusive.
Owing to the fact that possession of a common property gives rise to a transitive symmetrical relation, we come to imagine that wherever such a relation occurs it must be due to a common property.
Being equally numerous" is a transitive symmetrical relation of two collections; hence we imagine that both have a common property, called their number.
Custom in some ways is favorable to the welfare of society, for it limits the power of masters and rulers, preserves the rights of individuals to common property, and is in the interest of the weak as well as of the strong.
Private property is the characteristic feature of our present industrial society, but it exists side by side with state property and with many intermediate grades between private and common property.
Inventions and improvements thus gradually becoming common property, increase the free goods and free uses not bearing rent and open to every one.
Even up to fairly recent times, woodland and meadow have remained, either entirely or in part, common property; usually there is also a special temple-property set apart for purposes of cult.
Whenever a migrating tribe takes possession of a new territory, moreover, there is a further decisive consideration, namely, the fact that at the outset the soil is common property.
If, however, the mixture was accidental, or if Titius mixed it without your consent, it does not appear that it is common property, Inasmuch as the several components retain their original identity.
In the case that your grain was mixed with that of Titius, if it was done voluntarily on the part of both of you, it is common property, inasmuch as the individual items, i.
Rather, in circumstances of this sort the grain does not become common property, any more than a herd of cattle is regarded as common property, If Titius beasts should have become mixed up with yours.
Common property is the foundation of every primitive social organization; it is essential to its existence.
Common property at first, it gradually becomes private property.
Schaeffle, Henry George, and others, who do not believe in other forms of common property, favor the common ownership of land.
He pays for the water which he drinks, because it has ceased to be common property.
Why does Mr. Greely advocate the doctrines of Fourier, and propose to subvert your society and reconstruct it from top to bottom, making a sort of common property of women and children, as well as of lands and houses?
When land and capital are the common property of all the people, class distinctions, as we know them at present, will no longer exist.
Why should not a scheme of common property in the things that are wanted by all men and private property in the things that are wanted only by some men have as high a rank in the classification as has Eltzbacher's second class?
The governor rose in reply, and in examining the right of Tecumseh and his party to make objections to the treaty of fort Wayne, took occasion to say, that the Indians were not one nation, having a common property in the lands.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "common property" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
