- 15 Jan 2014 23:28
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The peg/fence either represents the initial valid claim over previously unclaimed land or was a partial sale of someone else's validly owned property. The initial valid claim is a result of you mixing your labour with it. The ongoing claim to property is similar albeit with a time dimension regarding when a reasonable person can expect that an old claim has become abandoned. The legal definition of such a time dimension can of course differ between cultures (and assets).
The implication is that it is not enough for a new explorer to simply claim that an entire region and all of its resources are his by their's by declaration, but in natural fact they can only claim the parts that they settle and actively work. As long as no other person appears in the region, then the explorer can claim whatever they want but it is so much empty verbiage and fantasy, with no foundation in natural fact. Should a newcomer appear on the scene, and begin to transform unused land elsewhere in the region, then any enforcement of the explorer's invalid claim would constitute criminal aggression against the newcomer and invasion of the latter's property rights.
mikema63 wrote:Really? Then what gives one guy the right to decide where the peg shall be? What doesn't give the other the right to move past the peg? If you are going to argue that people have some absolute right to be able to own private property then you have to justify it in a sense where it is not simply a societal construct. (as it still is in your example).
The peg/fence either represents the initial valid claim over previously unclaimed land or was a partial sale of someone else's validly owned property. The initial valid claim is a result of you mixing your labour with it. The ongoing claim to property is similar albeit with a time dimension regarding when a reasonable person can expect that an old claim has become abandoned. The legal definition of such a time dimension can of course differ between cultures (and assets).
The implication is that it is not enough for a new explorer to simply claim that an entire region and all of its resources are his by their's by declaration, but in natural fact they can only claim the parts that they settle and actively work. As long as no other person appears in the region, then the explorer can claim whatever they want but it is so much empty verbiage and fantasy, with no foundation in natural fact. Should a newcomer appear on the scene, and begin to transform unused land elsewhere in the region, then any enforcement of the explorer's invalid claim would constitute criminal aggression against the newcomer and invasion of the latter's property rights.