right to property
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the human right to own property
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- WikiProject Human rights
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- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- facet of
- private property
- permits
- ownership
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Encyclopedic overview
The right to property, or the right to own property (cf. ownership), is often classified as a human right for natural persons regarding their private property. The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution is credited as a significant precedent for the legal protection of individual property rights.
A right to property is specified in Article 17 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but it is not recognised in the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights or in the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The 1950 European Convention on Human Rights acknowledges a right for a natural or legal person to "peaceful enjoyment of his possessions", subject to the "general interest or to secure the payment of taxes."
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “right to property” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.