The phrase "a property interest" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal, financial, or real estate contexts to refer to an individual's or entity's rights or claims to a specific property.
Example: "The tenant has a property interest in the leased premises for the duration of the rental agreement."
Alternatives: "an interest in property" or "a stake in the property."
"You can't really have a property interest in data," he argued.
In the nineteenth century, Americans worried about a conspiracy against property — a property interest in people.
Such a mechanism might control the printing of other artifacts, like the ones that litigious, patent-holding corporations claim a property interest in.
The possibility of achieving this goal is obviously far greater where the injury has been to a property interest rather than to the person.
Conceptually the creation of a property interest de novo and its transfer from one person to another have little in common.
It was not until 1953, in a case involving baseball players licensing their images for use on baseball cards, that American law first constructed identity as a property interest that could be sold or licensed.
"Denial to access of other parts of the public beach for nude sunbathing is not a deprivation of a protected property interest," Cooke wrote in the ruling, "because plaintiff does not have a liberty interest in public nudity".
"People like to throw the term 'patent troll' around without a lot of thought rather than recognizing that this naming calling [sic] is intended to distract from the fact that a patent owner has a legitimate property interest," Cotman wrote.
It is a basic tenet of wills law that a person cannot order the destruction of a valuable property interest.
Although ownership of a real property interest (fractional interest) in the association may be a prerequisite for election to the board, removing that interest does nothing to alleviate prior liability.
At the time of the ratification of the Fourth Amendment, it was generally understood that each person had a protected property interest not just in the things he owned, but first, as the Fourth Amendment text makes clear, in his "person".
