Ownership transfer case for group property

It may be argued that group ownership can come into existence via an ownership transfer of some private property to a group of people.¹

Public property can also be the product of gift. In 19th-century England, it was common for roads to be built privately and then donated to the public for free use. This was done not out of altruism but because the roadbuilders owned land and businesses alongside the site of the new road, and they knew that having a road there would increase the value of their land and attract more customers to their businesses.²

Footnotes

1. The Fundamentals of Libertarian Ethics (3) ↩

2. Roderick T. Long (1996), “The Ethical Argument,” in idem. In Defense of Public Space. ↩