From a Google search
noun the act, state, or right of possessing something. 'the ownership of land'
Sais the Characteristics of Ownership are:
(My comments in brackets)
1) Right to possess
(This implies that you can own something without possessing it. Like money in the bank. You don't possess it but you can own it)
2) Right to possess the thing, which they own:
A person may have been deprived of something or may have voluntarily divested themselves of it but still have the right to it
3) Right to use and enjoy:
4) Right to Consume, destroy (liberties) or alienate:
(Most countries have a law that does not allow the destruction of currency. If you don't have the right to destroy currency does this mean that you don't have the right to own currency? Is currency in fact owned by the state who allow you to use it?)
5) Perpetual right / Indeterminate Duration:
The owner of the property has perpetual right or the right for unlimited period over the property. Those who are not owners may be entitled to possess or use the thing but the period for which they are so entitled is a limited duration. But in case of Ownership, it is of an indeterminate duration. Thus the interest of Bailee or lessee comes to an end when the period of bailment or lease is over. But the owner's interest is perpetual and does not terminate even in owner's death, because in that case the property will go to his legal hairs.
6) Actual right:
The right of owner over the property is heritable. It passes to the legal hairs after his death.
7) Ownership has a residuary character:
It is possible that an owner has parted or given away so many rights in respect of the things he owned. Still he continues to be the owner of the things in view of the residuary character of ownership. For example if and owner gives the lease of his property to A and easement to B, his Ownership of the land is now consists of Residual right. For example rights which remain when the lesser rights have been taken away.
Ther is an old saying, you come into this world with nothing and you leave it with nothing.
In the first certain years of life, young people do not have the legal rights of ownership that older people have. It's ther parents or guardians that have that right, supposedly to protect those young people from the concept of loss of the items.
What can one person physically create that had never previously existed in any other form? Even the most creative of people create physical things from something else. A painter use a canvas and paint. A scientist uses previously known items when they invent something new. Discovery, is finding something that had already existed that was not previously known about.
The creation of new human life requires 2 people, or at least parts of 2 people
All the physical things that currently exist are made rather than created. Making requires taking something that currently exist and doing something with it in order to make it into something else. Like cutting down a tree to make it into wood. Then using the wood to make it in to a piece of furniture. It could be argued that someone created the tree because they planted a tree seed. But where did the tree seed come from. Another tree. Even if that other tree came from a planted tree, somewhere back in time no person planted a seed.
Minerals, retrieved from the ground that are used to make steel that is used to make a building, was never created by people.
,Ownership and Obligations: The Human Flourishing Theory of Property
Ownership Matters: People Possess a Naïve Theory of Ownership
[https://web.colby.edu/humanslashnature/2015/12/15/the-societal-construct-of-ownership/|The Societal Construct of Ownership]
I particularly like this quote, supposedly from Jean Jacques Rousseau
“The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, to whom it occurred to say this is mine, and found people sufficiently simple to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. How many crimes, wars, murders, how many miseries and horrors Mankind would have been spared by him who, pulling up the stakes or filling in the ditch, had cried out to his kind: Beware of listening to this impostor; You are lost if you forget that the fruits are everyone’s and the Earth no-one’s”