According to this view, the story of Jacob's visit to Laban to obtain a wife originated as a metaphor for this migration, with the property and family which were gained from Laban representing the gains of the Joseph tribes by the time they returned from Egypt ; according to textual scholars, the Jahwist version of the Laban narrative only mentions the Joseph tribes, and Rachel, and does not mention the other tribal matriarchs whatsoever.

According to the Heritage Foundation Index of Economic Freedom in 2012, Chile has the strongest private property rights in Latin America, scoring 90 on a scale of 100.

According to tradition, the Colonna are a branch of the Counts of Tusculum — by Peter ( 1099 – 1151 ) son of Gregory III, called Peter " de Columna " from his property, the Columna Castle, in Colonna, Alban Hills.

According to Alan Ryan, the ideology of the original classical liberals argued against direct democracy, where law is made by majority vote by citizens, " for there is nothing in the bare idea of majority rule to show that majorities will always respect the rights of property or maintain rule of law.

According to Chalmers, a naturalistic account of property dualism requires a new fundamental category of properties described by new laws of supervenience ; the challenge being analogous to that of understanding electricity based on the mechanistic and Newtonian models of materialism prior to Maxwell's equations.

According to the relational interpretation of quantum mechanics, first proposed by Carlo Rovelli, observations such as those in the double-slit experiment result specifically from the interaction between the observer ( measuring device ) and the object being observed ( physically interacted with ), not any absolute property possessed by the object.

According to G. E. Moore, " Goodness is a simple, undefinable, non-natural property.

According to Henry Howard, Oxford paid a large sum for the property and renovations to it.

According to Bruce Pauley, Fascist governments exercised control over private property but did not nationalize it.

According to the what economist Nicholas Barr describes as the " classical definition of income :" the 1938 Haig-Simons definition, " income may be defined as the ... sum of ( 1 ) the market value of rights exercised in consumption and ( 2 ) the change in the value of the store of property rights ..." Since the consumption potential of non-monetary goods, such as leisure, cannot be measured, monetary income may be thought of as a proxy for full income.

According to Leibniz, if some object x is identical to some object y, then any property that x has, y will have as well.

According to Noam Chomsky, any property can be considered material, if one defines matter such that it has that property.

According to Adam Smith, the expectation of profit from " improving one's stock of capital " rests on private property rights.

According to David Hart, Comte had three main points: " firstly, that interference by the state over the centuries in property ownership has had dire consequences for justice as well as for economic productivity ; secondly, that property is legitimate when it emerges in such a way as not to harm anyone ; and thirdly, that historically some, but by no means all, property which has evolved has done so legitimately, with the implication that the present distribution of property is a complex mixture of legitimately and illegitimately held titles.

According to the growth rates post 2006, noticeable progress from these figures happened until early 2008, when the ' global financial crisis ' burst Spain's property bubble.

According to law professor H. Patrick Glenn of the Canadian McGill University, located in Montreal, Quebec, " oday it is said that the dhimmi are ' excluded from the specifically Muslim privileges, but on the other hand they are excluded from the specifically Muslim duties ' while ( and here there are clear parallels with western public and private law treatment of aliens – Fremdenrecht, la condition de estrangers ), ' or the rest, the Muslim and the dhimmi are equal in practically the whole of the law of property and of contracts and obligations '.

According to a respected author: " There is no compelling reason to believe that the classical thermodynamic entropy is a measurable property of nonequilibrium phenomena, ..."

According to the Samkhya school of Hindu philosophy, Akasha is one of the five Mahābhūtas ( grand physical elements ) having the specific property of sound.

" According to the New York Times, Garfield had been in debt at the time, having taken out a mortgage on his property.

According to Aldo Musacchio, a professor at Harvard Business School, it is a system in which governments, whether democratic or autocratic, exercise a widespread influence on the economy, through either direct ownership or various subsidies.

According to Josephus, they had customs and observances such as: collective ownership, electing a leader to attend to the interests of the group, obedience to the orders from their leader.

According to the plan the Royals had six years to find a local owner for the team before opening ownership to an outside bidder.

According to some historians, Jefferson understood he would have a better claim of ownership to the Pacific Northwest if the team gathered scientific data on animals and plants.

According to Halakha, the ownership of such chametz is also proscribed.

According to this view, Iceland was settled by " malcontents " from Norway, who resented Harald's claim of rights of taxation over lands, which the possessors appear to have previously held in absolute ownership.

According to a descriptive placard provided for tourists there, " The property remained in the ownership of Shakespeare's direct descendants until 1670, when his granddaughter, Elizabeth Barnard, died.

According to the official website, sherwoodforest. org, there is no mention of Harrison's ownership of the plantation.

According to the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, the industry developed slowly because of communal land ownership by the Cherokees, the lack of crude oil markets, and lack of reliable transportation.

According to Virgin Atlantic communications director Paul Charles, the prospect of offering much better facilities to Gatwick's airlines and passengers as a result of the change in ownership presents a long-term opportunity to leapfrog Heathrow in terms of airport infrastructure and passenger amenities.

According to the town's property ownership records ( available from the town clerk at town hall, 741 Dalton Road, Dalton, NH ), the town's largest landowner, together with family members, owns in excess of of land.

According to the Los Angeles Times, " s part of the agreement between UMG and the library, Universal retains ownership of the recording copyrights and the right to exploit the cleaned-up and digitized files for commercial purposes.

According to Phillip O ' Hara, property and ownership refer to a socially constructed circumstance conferred upon individuals or collective entities by the state, whereas possession is a physical phenomenon.

According to the Rome Statute ( Article 7 ( 2 )( c )), sexual enslavement is the exercise of any or all of the powers attached to the " right of ownership " over a person.

According to English – American anti-pornography campaigner Gail Dines, the ejaculate on the female performer's body " also marks the woman as used goods ", conveying a sense of ownership ; she quotes veteran American porn actor and producer Bill Margold stating: " I'd like to really show what I believe the men want to see: violence against women.

According to Isneg traditional view, the ownership of land is absolute, governed by an unwritten law of property relations.

According to the sentence in the second trial, the companies that extracted oil ( such as Yuganskneftegaz and Tomskneft, in which Yukos held major stake, but did not have 100 % ownership ), would sell all their oil to different shell companies below market rates, and the shell companies would re-sell it to the eventual buyer at market rates.

According to the Scotsman, policies include: " commitment to public ownership of industry, banking and utilities ; a promise not to implement cuts in public services ; an end to public bail-outs of the banking industry ; improved trade union rights ; and an end to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

According to page 20 of EURid's Annual Report for 2006, the breakdown of. eu domain ownership figures on 31 December 2006 was:

According to the group's former leader, Eugène Terre ' Blanche, the group is in possession of the old contracts of 1882 that conferred ownership of the area and has vowed to take their case to the International Court of Justice in The Hague if necessary.

According to Sheldon Richman, " n the 19th and early 20th centuries, ' socialism ' did not exclusively mean collective or government ownership of the means or production but was an umbrella term for anyone who believed labor was cheated out of its natural product under historical capitalism.

According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, however, Sasaki's real reason for returning to Japan was pressure from ownership, due to his " indiscreet philandering ".

According to Soviet biologist Mikhail P. Pavlov, writing after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Communist Party exploited this message to justify restrictions on firearm ownership in wolf inhabited areas.