On Dec 9, 2006, at 1:14 PM, James Heartfield wrote:
> (Following the hints put forward by Rousseau, who said that
> property begins when one man puts a fence around some land and
> others recognise it [badly remembered], or from Prudhon who says
> 'all property is theft').
As Elizabeth Blackmar says in her history of early New York real estate, she's interested in how some people came to make claims on their neighbors for rent.
Doug