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the legal fiction that turns 'mine' into 'mine, actually' and makes civilization possible.
means a bundle of enforceable claims letting someone use, exclude others from, and transfer a resource, backed by law rather than just muscle.
from formalized through english common law and locke's labor theory, then baked into constitutions worldwide as the trade nobody would make with a stranger unless a court would back them up.
it's a bundleuse, exclude, transfer, and destroy are separable sticks
not absolutezoning, eminent domain, and taxes carve it constantly
economic enginesecure titles let banks lend against land, hernando de soto argued
ancient rootsroman law distinguished dominium centuries before locke wrote