Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Property" in English language version.
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Rehearsing other Roman passages, [civilian jurists] found that private property guaranteed freedom by limiting princes and government.
[ A quote from 1768] demonstrates again the centrality of property ownership to the colonists' concept of freedom: property was what made men free, and not 'slaves' or 'like beasts subdued by whips and goads.' [...] Property had the potential of creating independence for the individual because, by utilizing and shaping the earth through one's labor and having exclusive (property) right to it, one created the means to act freely in the world. [...] In a letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote [...] thirty years after the American Revolution, he also expressed the importance of private property if an individual was to be free [...]. [...] Owning landed property could satisfy the wants and needs of the individual, this made him or her free.
Property means Real Property, Personal Property and mixed Property. [...] Real Property means any land, whether raw or improved, and includes structures, fixtures, appurtenances and other permanent improvements, excluding moveable machinery and equipment. Real Property includes land that is served by the construction of Project infrastructure (such as roads, sewers, and water lines) where the infrastructure contributes to the value of such land as a specific purpose of the Project.