Re: Overheard on the scanner

In the Year of the Earth Rat, the Great and Powerful Douglas Berry 
declared:
> On  Wed, 07 May 2008 17:54:51 -0700 David Friedman
> <ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> carved the following into the hard
> stone of rec.arts.sf.fandom 
>> In article <8te42491lv8ousj1b0nrum5lnm414jmnns@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>> Douglas Berry <penguin_boy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>> 1. What is your view of the origin of rights to property in land? How 
>> did you get the right to exclude trespassers?
> 
> By laying down the money for a specified plot and assuming legal
> responsibility for it. 
> 

I think David's asking about First Causes here -- how did the first 
person to own that plot of land get that right, which has been 
passed down to you?

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