Foreigners had no rights and, unless protected by some treaty between their state and Rome, they could be seized like ownerless pieces of property by any Roman. |
The idea of ownership of land is unnatural to a guy who has spent most of his life in the ownerless ocean. |
New types of ownerless structure are being created all the time. |
Does not the Maharajah-sahib impound all horses left ownerless? |
What urban child doesn't thrill to the idea of clear pools and islands, the cleanness, the space, the apparently ownerless wilderness that they can call their own? |
It would be wrong for the colony to continue to divest itself permanently of land which belongs to it as ownerless property and only retain within its domain a small portion for times to come. |