Indigenous governments in Canada are increasingly authorized to adopt laws that convert communally held lands to individual fee simple. They will convert title to fee simple in order to obtain the economic benefits commonly associated with private ownership and its securitization. However,...

Property rights -- Jews in the market for land -- Lords of the land?: Jews as rentiers and cultivators -- Dowries, wills and gifts: property and the tranifer of wealth -- The link between credit and land -- The economic case for property: asset choices, risk and return -- Credit and property in...