Pathfinder 1E Holy heck! There's a guy STUPID enough to ask for pirated materials on the Pathfinder FACEBOOK PAGE!!!!

[pemerton]

Currently, in the US, Europe, and most of the rest of the world, no. But that is because you cannot own *people* - child or otherwise. Not all rights (or obligations) with respect to a thing are rights of property. Your relationship with a child is fundamentally different than your relationship to any piece of property, and so this is a poor example to work with.

The example does show one thing, namely, that what sorts of rights count as property rights can be quite variable with time and place.

For instance, up until the 1860s US law (federal and in many states) did countenance that there could be property in people. And even now, I believe that in the US the law is far more permissive of property in body parts than is the case in Australia and the UK.

 

[Nellisir]

I just want to give a big thumbs up to this entire thread and the legal eagles participating in it.