That's all well and good until someone decides to nationalize it. It happens not infrequently here on terra-firma.<br /><br />Someone builds a farm, and some government decides that "the people" should have the proceeds from said farm, and they march their military in and take the land, the buildings, the tractors, and the vines themselves away via force.<br /><br />Heck, right here in the US, we have "eminant domain".<br />(The <i>right</i> of a government to appropriate private property for public use, <i>usually</i> with compensation to the owner.)*<br /><br />If our government decides they want to build a freeway through your yard, they just pop right in and do it. Sucks to be "you".<br /><br />The only way you can practically prevent the government from nationalizing your property (or "state-alizing"[?]) is if you can hold it against the National Guard. Unlikely at <b>best</b>.<br /><br />I think it gets even more confusing when we start talking about space. Hence the purpose, I'd imagine, for the International Treaties.<br /><br /><br />* Financial & Investment Dictionary. Barron's Educational Series, Inc. - emphasis mine.<br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>.</p><p><font size="3">bipartisan</font> (<span style="color:blue" class="pointer"><span class="pron"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size="2">bī-pär'tĭ-zən, -sən</font></span></span>) [Adj.] Maintaining the ability to blame republications when your stimulus plan proves to be a devastating failure.</p><p><strong><font color="#ff0000"><font color="#ff0000">IMPE</font><font color="#c0c0c0">ACH</font> <font color="#0000ff"><font color="#c0c0c0">O</font>BAMA</font>!</font></strong></p> </div>