Where does the idea of private property originate from?

Question:Is it inherent? or is it derived from some other right?
Also, when can I claim something as 'mine'?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Is it inherent? or is it derived from some other right?
Also, when can I claim something as 'mine'?

read utopia.

personally i think it's inherent. people want claim and credit over what they think is theirs. even in socialistic or communist countries, i'm sure private property exist, although maybe not in terms of land. take for example, and i know this is a fictional example, utopia. none of the land is privately owned, but when a person creates something, like a doll, they cherish it. they've put themselves into those creations and as a result, feel a connection to it.

I believe it originated a very, very long time ago when a really big guy declared that he'd beat the living daylights out of anyone who touched stuff that he decided was his.

Things haven't really changed too much since then except for exactly what kinds of club are appropriate to use for such activity.

most property in this country is under deed already. there may be some government open lands that are still available. i'm not sure if you can still homestead anywhere or not. there used to be a rule about living on public land for a certain amount of time and making improvements to that land. but i'm not sure anymore.
i don't know who first started private property, but squatting on someone else's land is trespassing.
I think about private property a lot when people start crying about the "poor illegal immigrants" & "open borders". how far would they open their own borders of their property to someone just moving in. would they allow hippies to live on their front yard? or how about take up residency in their living room? it's all about lawful boundaries, and what has been won in war or bought outright.

It is created to keep a central government from controlling mas populations. Private property is one best ways to advertise individual freedom. When someone wants to take your land away, it is an attack on your freedom.

It's inherent in (just a more materialized form of) the concept of Self.

Urukagina, the king of the Sumerian city-state Lagash, established the first laws that forbade compelling the sale of property. The Cyrus cylinder of Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, documents the protection of property rights

Property designates those things commonly recognized as the entities in respect of which a person or group has exclusive rights. Important types of property include real property (land), personal property (other physical possessions), and intellectual property (rights over artistic creations, inventions, etc.). A right of ownership is associated with property that establishes the good as being "one's own thing" in relation to other individuals or groups, assuring the owner the right to dispense with the property in a manner he or she sees fit, whether to use or not use, exclude others from using, or to transfer ownership. Some philosophers assert that property rights arise from social convention. Others find origins for them in morality or natural law.

The right to life is the source of all rights—and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other rights are possible. Since man has to sustain his life by his own effort, the man who has no right to the product of his effort has no means to sustain his life. The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave.

Bear in mind that the right to property is a right to action, like all the others: it is not the right to an object, but to the action and the consequences of producing or earning that object. It is not a guarantee that a man will earn any property, but only a guarantee that he will own it if he earns it. It is the right to gain, to keep, to use and to dispose of material values.

"Man's Rights," The Virtue of Selfishness,
`Ayn Rand

peace and love

the idea of property ? maybe by the will to protect something that we desperately needed or loved. i guess you can claim something is yours personnally, if you don't have to share it with anyone ( i dunno like air) , that you can have proof of your property, some sort of paper or reliable witnesses, or that you find something and no one ever comes back ro claim for it..

Rike and Dr. Y are the only two who are right. But it comes down to this--when I have something that I found, gathered, or created, it takes the initiation of force against me to make me give it to you.

It is the intiation of force that is not acceptable behavior under any circumstances. Force is acceptable only to defend one's self, family, or property, which gets it definition by the mere fact that you must force me to give it to you.