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Property Traditions

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The automobile is a little over 100 years old, the wheel several thousand years old, but property and concepts of property ownership have been around since the dawn of civilization. Who is to say that Neolithic man did not allow a member of his tribe to share his cave in return for a haunch of venison each week?

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  1. Gordon Edington
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Edington, G. (1997). Property Traditions. In: Property Management. Macmillan Building and Surveying Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14258-3_1

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