The History of Private Property Law

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The history of private property law is typically conveyed as something more narrowly about England proper. But in many ways these doctrines were developed in the colonies where a colonial state who treats indigenous populations as either less than human or as incapable of owning property privately. In those contexts it became much easier for a colonial government to impose different and more novel forms of land holding.

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