Does this expression mean that who physically posses something is the most important factor in who owns it, or does it mean that most laws are about property? please support your answer with references.
123461
Take this example:\nYou get pulled over in YOUR car, with a bunch of your friends.  Police decide they have reasonable cause to search your vehicle, and since you know you've done nothing wrong, and there's nothing bad in the car, why wait for a warrant?  What you don't know, is that one of your friends just dropped a bag of some illicit drug under one of your car seats.  What happens?  (Well, in all actuality, they may just make off with it and everybody gets let off b/c they don't feel like dealing with it for a little 20 sack & 5 people, but thats not the point here.)  Everybody gets searched, some or all get arrested, your car goes to impound, and SOMEBODY is going to get charged with possession.  Guess what else?  The dope is in YOUR car, and they can, therefore, charge you with possession of that drug BECAUSE it was in your car, and so were you (and so was everybody else).  \nMake sense?\n\nA more simple example:  You're 12.  Your parents find cigarettes in your room.  You exclaim that they're not yours, and you were holding them for a friend.  Who gets grounded?  The person in possession, NOT the person whose cigs they actually are.
399283
You are free but it doesn't mean you can do whatever you want.\n\nAddition:\nOk to be more precise...  In the state of nature there is one "natural law" - You can do what you want as far as it doesn't inhibit or undermine someone else's freedom/liberty.  \nA state of license would mean that you can/should do whatever you want.
182233
it means driving with something he's not supposed to have on him..ie drugs.
63991
The phrase is adverse possession.  It is, in general simple terms, the principle that if someone exercises rights over a property for a long time, it becomes thiers.  \n\nThe law is different in different states, and complicated.  If you didn't know that the fence line was in the wrong place, it may well not be adverse possession.\n\nI know there are lots of clinics set up to help people with property issues in NYC.  Perhaps you can consult one of those if you don't want to consult a private lawyer.  (I knew someone who found help that way, and found the place through her congressman.)\n\nBut I recommend waiting until she has her survey done before you take irreversible action.
438541
I think you'd have to put it in context to get a decent answer (at least from someone who hasn't read the article to which you refer).  It could mean any number of things depending on the sentences that preceded or followed it.
521139
The first quote means that doing right isn't easy and will, in fact, be more difficult, given that people often will try to prevent you from doing right, because it (often) causes them to feel guilty about their own lack of effort.\n\nThe second means all the laws in the world won't keep bad people from behaving badly, while truly good people don't need to know right from the law; it is intrinsic in their nature.\n\nHope this helps...
205915
A law that punsishes someone for an act that was not a crime at the time is an ex post facto law. \nhttp://www.law.cornell.edu/lexicon/ex_post_facto.htm\n\nThe court order to tell someone why he is being held or release him/her is a writ of habeas corpus, aka, the "great writ." \nhttp://www.lectlaw.com/def/h001.htm
414744
It means holders of record. In other words it is paid to the person holding it on that date even though he/she may sell it before the payment date.
338845
it just means exactly what he said it means.  dont take is so personally, he was being honest with you.  we're not animals :)
201418
VERY roughly it translates to "That concerns you a damp dirt, that gate".  Whatever THAT means.
56773
I think it just means "I'm going' to the jewlery store to get some grillz." I don't think he means to literally rob the jewlery store. So that would be my guess.
8581
I means competence, the will to compete. It is a japaneze word, and hence you wouldn't find its definition in English dictionaries.
604253
There are those who believe property is as important as crimes to the person.  Personally, I believe that property is just that--property.  It can be replaced or is inanimate and cannot be hurt.  Crimes against humanity affect quality of life from physical to mental injury.  That is intolerable.
135829
its a phrase but not always meaningless,ive used this on many occassion--for instance at a party, and you suddenly head for the nearest tree---would you rather i said i gotta take a piss??
339149
Habeas Corpus means that the Government cannot just grab you and hold you...they have to let people know they have you, and show just cause to hold you, or let you go.
516059
The following is a cogent edit of the paragraph in question, though I have taken liberties with it, the meaning is the same:\n\n"All the XBOX's were securely packaged prior to their delivery.  The 27 sets of XBOX's in case no. 3 must have been damaged during transportation.  We will take immediate steps to reimburse the buyer."
675375
What state or province are you in?\nIt could mean offering forged documents for sale. (Archaic usage. English common law.)