ABSTRACT
The positive results of the analysis summarizes the four independent and sound lines of general justification for private property two from labor, one from utility, and one from liberty. Coordinated into a coherent picture of general justification, any limitations they place on the justifiability of property rights must be observed at the levels of specific and particular justification that is; those efforts must be compatible with the general justifications as coordinated. Some principles for compensation and taxation are built into the general justifications. In particular, the desert-labor argument entails penalties for the net losses caused by labor; the economic versions of the utility argument provide grounds for assessing both compensation and taxation. Finally, within the constraints imposed by the four general justifications and the anti-property arguments, the labor and liberty arguments combine to produce a presumption in favor of allowing people to acquire as much property as they desire.
