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The earliest theory of private property as found in some of the Roman writers is the occupation theory. The doctrine that property belongs of right to him who first seizes it is, however, one that can apply, if at all, only to the earliest stages of development....

Principles of Economics: With Special Reference to American Conditions - Page 131
by Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman - 1905 - 710 pages
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Readings in Industrial Society: A Study in the Structure and Functioning of ...

Leon Carroll Marshall - Economic history - 1918 - 1130 pages

...Nature of Capital and Income, 7» 37- (The Macmillan Co., 1906.) 366. THEORIES OF PRIVATE PROPERTY The earliest theory of private property as found in...owner, we still today assign it to the lucky finder. The occupation theory may explain how the present legal title to certain forms of property originated;...

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