In the abstract,
property is that which belongs to or with something, whether as an attribute or as a component of said thing. In the context of this article, property is one or more components (rather than attributes), whether
physical or
incorporeal, of a person's
estate; or so belonging to, as in being
owned by, a person or jointly a group of people or a legal entity like a
corporation or even a
society. (Given such meaning, the word property is
uncountable, and as such, is not described with an indefinite article or as plural.) Depending on the nature of the property, an owner of property has the right to
consume, alter,
share, redefine,
rent,
mortgage,
pawn,
sell,
exchange,
transfer,
give away or destroy it, or to exclude others from doing these things, as well as to perhaps
abandon it; whereas regardless of the nature of the property, the owner thereof has the right to properly use it (as a
durable,
mean or factor, or whatever), or at the very least exclusively keep it.
