So far, M.Troplong tells us no more than his masters, and the figures with which he adorns his style add nothing to the old idea.
Property, then, implies three terms: The subject, the object, and the condition.

There is no difficulty in regard to the first two terms.

As to the third, the condition of property down to this day, for the Greek as for the Barbarian, has been that of first occupancy.

What now would you have it, progressive doctor?
"When man lays hands for the first time upon an object without a master, he performs an act which, among individuals, is of the greatest importance.

The thing thus seized and occupied participates, so to speak, in the personality of him who holds it.