PROPERTY ONCE ACQUIRED! Good, if it is acquired; but, as it is not acquired, it cannot be preserved.

RIGHTS ARE ETERNAL! Yes, in the sight of God, like the archetypal ideas of the Platonists.

But, on the earth, rights exist only in the presence of a subject, an object, and a condition.

Take away one of these three things, and rights no longer exist.

Thus, individual possession ceases at the death of the subject, upon the destruction of the object, or in case of exchange or abandonment.
Let us admit, however, with M.Troplong, that property is an absolute and eternal right, which cannot be destroyed save by the deed and at the will of the proprietor.