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  • 1property — noun 1 possessions ADJECTIVE ▪ personal, private ▪ common, public ▪ intellectual ▪ Companies should protect their intellectual property with patents and trademarks …

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  • 2Property — 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… …

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  • 3Property is theft! — NOTOC Property is theft! (French: La propriété, c est le vol! ) is a slogan coined by French anarchist Pierre Joseph Proudhon in his 1840 book What is Property? Or, an Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government .By property, Proudhon… …

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  • 4destroy — verb 1 damage sth so badly that it no longer exists ADVERB ▪ completely, entirely, totally, utterly ▪ all but, almost, effectively, nearly, practically …

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  • 5property — In social life, to have something as property is to have the right to use it. Use may here include exclusion of other people, consumption, transfer, loan, alteration, destruction, etc., so it can come in various degrees. There is no reason for… …

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  • 6property — [[t]prɒ̱pə(r)ti[/t]] ♦♦ properties 1) N UNCOUNT: usu with poss Someone s property is all the things that belong to them or something that belongs to them. [FORMAL] Richard could easily destroy her personal property to punish her for walking out… …

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  • 7Criticism of intellectual property — Critics of the term intellectual property argue that the increased use of this terminology coincided with a more general shift away from thinking about things like copyright and patent law as specific legal instruments designed to promote the… …

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  • 8John Adams: On the Importance of Property for the Suffrage — ▪ Primary Source              James Sullivan, a member of the provincial congress of Massachusetts, corresponded with John Adams in May 1776 when the latter was a member of the Second Continental Congress. On May 6, Sullivan wrote a letter to… …

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  • 9Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn — (DDDB) is a volunteer run and community funded 501(c)3 non profit organization founded in February 2004 to oppose Forest City Ratner s 8 million square foot Atlantic Yards development proposal for an arena and 16 high rises in Prospect Heights… …

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  • 10Regulatory taking — refers to a situation in which a government regulates a property to such a degree that the regulation effectively amounts to an exercise of the government s eminent domain power without actually divesting the property s owner of title to the… …

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