I will not insist farther on the distinction between things which can, and things which cannot, be appropriated.

On this point, economists and legists talk worse than nonsense.

The Civil Code, after having defined property, says nothing about susceptibility of appropriation; and if it speaks of things which are in THE MARKET, it always does so without enumerating or describing them.

However, light is not wanting.

There are some few maxims such as these: _Ad reges potestas omnium pertinet, ad singulos proprietas; Omnia rex imperio possidet, singula dominio_.