Sentence examples for were common property from inspiring English sources

The fables, proverbs, and other sources on which Freidank drew were common property.

City officials argued yesterday that trees were common property requested by neighborhoods and that everyone was responsible for their upkeep.

Biographical information is used as if it were common property, though at least in the original periodical the book being reviewed was credited at the head of the article.

Meanwhile the news was spreading from hand to hand; newspapers were common property, and all over the city the flags began to break out, and float icily over the streets, for it was a still morning and the colours drooped.

It did so by banning hunting at sea, where they were common property and therefore over-exploited: seals could then be killed only on the territory of individual governments, which acquired an interest in protecting them.

The mode in which such a succession was applied by the gens was probably not determined by law; and as the gens was a kind of juristical person, analogous to the community of the civitas, it seems not unlikely that originally inheritances accrued to the gens as such, and were common property.

Saints are common property".

Even the clothing is common property.

These Dowland songs, by the way, are common property, as much as any folk song or traditional melody.

A person should keep the profits he or she generated on that land, George believed, but land itself, and its natural resources, should be common property.

Early in Islam, the elements of nature, such as air, trees, water, and land, were understood to be common property of all living beings, ultimately belonging to God.