movables
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Normally the capital receives about 14 million visitors annually; this year 17 million are expected, and already 10,000 tourists are trooping through the White House every day, eyeing the movables.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nine years ago the people carried into it all their movables that they valued most, believing it to be secure, but the Kurds broke in in force and took all they wanted.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
From the very moment when private property in movables developed there had to be ethical sanctions of general effect in all communities in which private property prevailed, thus: Thou shalt not steal.
From Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" by Friedrich Engels
It was enough that acquisition of land and movables and private ownership of them were part of the existing social system.
From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Roscoe Pound
For the argument that excludes some things from private ownership may seem to apply more and more to land and even to movables.
From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Roscoe Pound
