Property rights have become a topic of critical interest to urban residents anxious to protect their new assets from the whims of the state.

My first explanation was that since people are born unequal, in a “property-less” state where everybody is equally “property-less”, human rights must be unequal in order to produce social equilibrium.

Many state statutes deal with property law matters such as landlord-tenant legislation, recording acts, civil rights statutes, and regulation of family property on divorce.