Homestead principle, the Glossary
The homestead principle is the principle by which one gains ownership of an unowned natural resource by performing an act of original appropriation.[1]
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81 relations: Adverse possession, Age of Enlightenment, Air traffic control, Airport, Anarcho-capitalism, Animal husbandry, Anthony de Jasay, Armed Occupation Act, Austrian school of economics, Ayn Rand, Classical liberalism, Common law, Cornell University, Cuius est solum, eius est usque ad coelum et ad inferos, Dog, Dominion Lands Act, Encyclical, Entitlement theory, Estate in land, Factors of production, Farmer, Federal Aviation Administration, Federal Communications Commission, Finders, keepers, Georgism, Government, Gravel, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Homestead Acts, Homesteading, Indigenous peoples, Intersubjective verifiability, John Locke, Labor theory of property, Land law, Land tenure, Legal doctrine, Livestock branding, Lockean proviso, Lumber, Mast seeding, Metre, Mises Institute, Murray Rothbard, Natural gas, Natural resource, New South Wales, Norm (philosophy), Occupatio, Ore, ... Expand index (31 more) »
Adverse possession
Adverse possession, sometimes colloquially described as "squatter's rights", is a legal principle in common law under which a person who does not have legal title to a piece of property—usually land (real property)—may acquire legal ownership based on continuous possession or occupation of the property without the permission (licence) of its legal owner.
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Age of Enlightenment
The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.
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Air traffic control
Air traffic control (ATC) is a service provided by ground-based air traffic controllers (people) who direct aircraft on the ground and through a given section of controlled airspace, and can provide advisory services to aircraft in non-controlled airspace.
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Airport
An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport.
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Anarcho-capitalism
Anarcho-capitalism (colloquially: ancap or an-cap) is an anti-statist, libertarian political philosophy and economic theory that seeks to abolish centralized states in favor of stateless societies with systems of private property enforced by private agencies, based on concepts such as the non-aggression principle, free markets and self-ownership.
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Animal husbandry
Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, or other products.
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Anthony de Jasay
Anthony de Jasay (15 October 1925 – 23 January 2019) was a Hungarian writer, economist, and philosopher.
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Armed Occupation Act
The Florida Armed Occupation Act of 1842 was passed as an incentive to grow the population of Florida.
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Austrian school of economics
The Austrian school is a heterodox school of economic thought that advocates strict adherence to methodological individualism, the concept that social phenomena result primarily from the motivations and actions of individuals along with their self interest. Homestead principle and Austrian school of economics are libertarian theory.
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Ayn Rand
Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum;, 1905 – March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name Ayn Rand, was a Russian-born American author and philosopher.
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Classical liberalism
Classical liberalism is a political tradition and a branch of liberalism that advocates free market and laissez-faire economics and civil liberties under the rule of law, with special emphasis on individual autonomy, limited government, economic freedom, political freedom and freedom of speech.
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Common law
Common law (also known as judicial precedent, judge-made law, or case law) is the body of law created by judges and similar quasi-judicial tribunals by virtue of being stated in written opinions.
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Cornell University
Cornell University is a private Ivy League land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York.
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Cuius est solum, eius est usque ad coelum et ad inferos
Cuius est solum, eius est usque ad coelum et ad inferos (Latin for "whoever's is the soil, it is theirs all the way to Heaven and all the way to Hell") is a principle of property law, stating that property holders have rights not only to the plot of land itself, but also the air above and (in the broader formulation) the ground below. Homestead principle and Cuius est solum, eius est usque ad coelum et ad inferos are property law.
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Dog
The dog (Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris) is a domesticated descendant of the wolf.
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Dominion Lands Act
The Dominion Lands Act (Loi des terres fédérales) was an 1872 Canadian law that aimed to encourage the settlement of the Canadian Prairies and to help prevent the area being claimed by the United States.
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Encyclical
An encyclical was originally a circular letter sent to all the churches of a particular area in the ancient Roman Church.
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Entitlement theory
Entitlement theory is a theory of distributive justice and private property created by Robert Nozick in chapters 7 and 8 of his book Anarchy, State, and Utopia.
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Estate in land
An estate in land is, in the law of England and Wales, an interest in real property that is or may become possessory.
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Factors of production
In economics, factors of production, resources, or inputs are what is used in the production process to produce output—that is, goods and services.
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Farmer
A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials.
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Federal Aviation Administration
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is a U.S. federal government agency within the U.S. Department of Transportation which regulates civil aviation in the United States and surrounding international waters.
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Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States.
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Finders, keepers
Finders, keepers, sometimes extended as the children's rhyme finders, keepers; losers, weepers, is an English adage with the premise that when something is unowned or abandoned, whoever finds it first can claim it for themself permanently. Homestead principle and finders, keepers are property law.
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Georgism
Georgism, also called in modern times Geoism, and known historically as the single tax movement, is an economic ideology holding that people should own the value that they produce themselves, while the economic rent derived from land—including from all natural resources, the commons, and urban locations—should belong equally to all members of society.
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Government
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state.
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Gravel
Gravel is a loose aggregation of rock fragments.
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Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Hans-Hermann Hoppe (born 2 September 1949) is a German-American academic associated with Austrian School economics, anarcho-capitalism, right-wing libertarianism, and opposition to democracy.
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Homestead Acts
The Homestead Acts were several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain, typically called a homestead.
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Homesteading
Homesteading is a lifestyle of self-sufficiency.
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Indigenous peoples
There is no generally accepted definition of Indigenous peoples, although in the 21st century the focus has been on self-identification, cultural difference from other groups in a state, a special relationship with their traditional territory, and an experience of subjugation and discrimination under a dominant cultural model.
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Intersubjective verifiability
Intersubjective verifiability is the capacity of a concept to be readily and accurately communicated between different individuals ("intersubjectively"), and to be reproduced under varying circumstances for the purposes of verification.
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John Locke
John Locke (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism".
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Labor theory of property
The labor theory of property (also called the labor theory of appropriation, labor theory of ownership, labor theory of entitlement, or principle of first appropriation) is a theory of natural law that holds that property originally comes about by the exertion of labor upon natural resources.
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Land law
Land law is the form of law that deals with the rights to use, alienate, or exclude others from land. Homestead principle and land law are property law.
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Land tenure
In common law systems, land tenure, from the French verb "tenir" means "to hold", is the legal regime in which land "owned" by an individual is possessed by someone else who is said to "hold" the land, based on an agreement between both individuals. Homestead principle and land tenure are property law.
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Legal doctrine
A legal doctrine is a framework, set of rules, procedural steps, or test, often established through precedent in the common law, through which judgments can be determined in a given legal case.
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Livestock branding
Livestock branding is a technique for marking livestock so as to identify the owner.
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Lockean proviso
The Lockean proviso is a feature of John Locke's labor theory of property which states that whilst individuals have a right to homestead private property from nature by working on it, they can do so only if "there was still enough, and as good left; and more than the yet unprovided could use".
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Lumber
Lumber is wood that has been processed into uniform and useful sizes (dimensional lumber), including beams and planks or boards.
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Mast seeding
Mast is the fruit of forest trees and shrubs, such as acorns and other nuts.
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Metre
The metre (or meter in US spelling; symbol: m) is the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI).
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Mises Institute
The Ludwig von Mises Institute for Austrian Economics, or Mises Institute, is a nonprofit think tank headquartered in Auburn, Alabama, that is a center for Austrian economics, radical right-wing libertarian thought and the paleolibertarian and anarcho-capitalist movements in the United States.
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Murray Rothbard
Murray Newton Rothbard (March 2, 1926 – January 7, 1995) was an American economist of the Austrian School,Ronald Hamowy, ed., 2008,, Cato Institute, Sage,, p. 62: "a leading economist of the Austrian school"; pp.
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Natural gas
Natural gas (also called fossil gas, methane gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane (95%) in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes.
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Natural resource
Natural resources are resources that are drawn from nature and used with few modifications.
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New South Wales
New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.
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Norm (philosophy)
Norms are concepts (sentences) of practical import, oriented to affecting an action, rather than conceptual abstractions that describe, explain, and express.
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Occupatio
Occupatio (occupation) was an original method of acquiring ownership of un-owned property (res nullius) by occupying with intent to own.
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Ore
Ore is natural rock or sediment that contains one or more valuable minerals concentrated above background levels, typically containing metals, that can be mined, treated and sold at a profit.
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Original appropriation
Appropriation is a process by which previously unowned natural resources, particularly land, become the property of a person or group of persons. Homestead principle and Original appropriation are libertarian theory and property law.
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Performative contradiction
A performative contradiction (performativer Widerspruch) arises when the making of an utterance rests on necessary presuppositions that contradict the proposition asserted in the utterance.
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Pollution
Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change.
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Pope
The pope (papa, from lit) is the bishop of Rome and the visible head of the worldwide Catholic Church.
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Pope Pius XI
Pope Pius XI (Pio XI), born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti (31 May 1857 – 10 February 1939), was the Bishop of Rome and supreme pontiff of the Catholic Church from 6 February 1922 to 10 February 1939.
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Positive law
Positive laws (ius positum) are human-made laws that oblige or specify an action.
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Possession is nine-tenths of the law
Possession is nine-tenths of the law is an expression meaning that ownership is easier to maintain if one has possession of something, or difficult to enforce if one does not.
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Prima facie
Prima facie is a Latin expression meaning "at first sight", or "based on first impression".
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Product (business)
In marketing, a product is an object, or system, or service made available for consumer use as of the consumer demand; it is anything that can be offered to a market to satisfy the desire or need of a customer.
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Production (economics)
Production is the process of combining various inputs, both material (such as metal, wood, glass, or plastics) and immaterial (such as plans, or knowledge) in order to create output.
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Quadragesimo anno
Quadragesimo anno (Latin for "In the 40th Year") is an encyclical issued by Pope Pius XI on 15 May 1931, 40 years after Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum novarum, further developing Catholic social teaching.
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Ranch
A ranch (from rancho/Mexican Spanish) is an area of land, including various structures, given primarily to ranching, the practice of raising grazing livestock such as cattle and sheep.
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Right of way
A right of way (also right-of-way) is a transportation corridor along which people, animals, vehicles, watercraft, or utility lines travel, or the legal status that gives them the right to do so.
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Right to property
The right to property, or the right to own property (cf. ownership), is often classified as a human right for natural persons regarding their possessions. Homestead principle and right to property are concepts in political philosophy.
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Right-libertarianism
Right-libertarianism,Rothbard, Murray (1 March 1971).
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Robertson Land Acts
The Crown Lands Acts 1861 (NSW) (or Robertson Land Acts) were introduced by the New South Wales Premier, John Robertson, in 1861 to reform land holdings in New South Wales and in particular to break the squattocracy's domination of land tenure.
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Search warrant
A search warrant is a court order that a magistrate or judge issues to authorize law enforcement officers to conduct a search of a person, location, or vehicle for evidence of a crime and to confiscate any evidence they find.
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Seasteading
Seasteading (or ocean settlement) is the concept of creating permanent dwellings at sea, called seasteads, in international waters outside the territory claimed by any government.
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Squatting
Squatting is the action of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied area of land or a building, usually residential, that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have lawful permission to use.
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Statute
A statute is a formal written enactment of a legislative body, a stage in the process of legislation.
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Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy)
The distinction between subjectivity and objectivity is a basic idea of philosophy, particularly epistemology and metaphysics. Homestead principle and subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy) are concepts in political philosophy.
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Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.
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Surveillance aircraft
Surveillance aircraft are aircraft used for surveillance.
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Tethered balloon
A tethered, moored or captive balloon is a balloon that is restrained by one or more tethers attached to the ground so it cannot float freely.
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The Market for Liberty
The Market for Liberty is a significant anarcho-capitalist book written by Linda and Morris Tannehill.
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The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.
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Trespass
Trespass is an area of tort law broadly divided into three groups: trespass to the person, trespass to chattels, and trespass to land.
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Trespass to land
Trespass to land is a common law tort or crime that is committed when an individual or the object of an individual intentionally (or, in Australia, negligently) enters the land of another without a lawful excuse.
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United States v. Causby
United States v. Causby, 328 U.S. 256 (1946), was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision related to ownership of airspace above private property.
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Unmanned aerial vehicle
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without any human pilot, crew, or passengers on board.
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Venison
Venison originally meant the meat of a game animal but now refers primarily to the meat of deer (or antelope in South Africa).
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_principle
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