What Nozick goes on to say is that the holdings of a person are just if he's entitled to them by the principles of justice in acquisition and transfer or in imperfect situations by the principle of rectification.
If we find at the end of the line that ownership isn't just, the principle of rectification requires us to reallocate resources in a just manner if possible.
(Indeed Nozick suggests, for instance, the Difference Principle may be the best implementation of the principle of rectification).
Perhaps, then, bygones should be treated as bygones if we now lack the information that such an elaborate principle of rectification would require to justify enforced rectification payments.[27] Nozick closes chapter 7 with two thoughts concerning rectification.
We do not need a delicately worked out principle of rectification in order to say that, if A has grabbed B's goat yesterday, he can be required to return it to B today.
The most famous version of this, no doubt, is Robert Nozick's (1974) "entitlement theory", which holds that distributive justice primarily consists of only three principles: (1) the principle of justice in acquisition, (2) the principle of justice in transfer, and (3) the principle of rectification for violations of (1) and (2).
The guiding principle of rectification as provided in this document is to "make full use of the market mechanism and facilitate it with state policies … combine enforcement in accordance with laws and regulations with institutional and mechanism innovations, reduce the number of coal mines while protecting the lawful rights of workers and investors".
Likewise, according to the geometric principle of ortho-rectification, and calculated at an image shooting angle of 17.7º and the maximum vertical accuracy of 20 m, it can be deduced that the maximum ortho-rectification error is up to 6.38 m.
As the high-resolution image shooting angle was 6.60º, it can be inferred according to geometric principle of ortho-rectification (Fabio et al. 2009) that the errors produced by the 3 monitoring points in lateral displacement observation were 0.623, 0.543 and 0.564 m respectively.
Maybe some sort of rectification was possible.
If you think about it, the very notion of rectification makes almost no sense.
