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This paper traces the history of personal property rights in Western culture. First, the paper examines property rights in Aristotle's time, which centered on the polis. Then, the paper considers how the concept of the polis extended to the buildings around this high stronghold, as well as the property that encompassed the locale. Within each polis there developed political entities that created their own laws and control over the citizenship, being independent of one another.

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"In Aristotle's time the polis was of critical concern to the people. The polis was the "high stronghold" that the people escaped to in time of war (Miller, 1997, p. 313). Eventually the concept of the polis extended to the buildings around this high stronghold, as well as the property that encompassed the locale. Within each polis there developed political entities that created their own laws and control over the citizenship, being independent of one another. Miller (1997) wrote: The polis...exhibited constancy as well as flux. For although its members remained tightly intertwined by relationships of kinship, economic..."

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