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1. Something that is owned.
2. An attribute or abstract quality which is characteristic of a class of objects, see property (philosophy)

See also

• The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
• Ancient Society by Lewis H. Morgan

"The growth of the idea of property, and the rise of monogamy, furnished motives sufficiently powerful to demand and obtain [a] change in order to bring children into the gens of their father, and into a participation in the inheritance of his estate. Monogamy assured the paternity of children; which was unknown when the gens was instituted, and the exclusion of children from the inheritance was no longer possible. "--from Lewis H. Morgan's Ancient Society.

• What Is Property? by Pierre Proudhon: "Property is theft!"