(law) the area of law concerned with the ownership and conveyance of property rights and title. / The formal course in property law required of most first-year law school students in common-law systems.

plural of real property

(law) real estate.

Stolen goods. / Something that is highly sought after.

(mathematics) The property of there being a unique morphism from an arbitrary object to the universal morphism of a comma category which is from a functor to a fixed object; or, dually, the property of there being a unique morphism from the universal morphism to an arbitrary object of a comma category which is from a fixed object to a functor. (Caveat: the uniqueness is up to isomorphism.)

(Britain) The hierarchy of owned housing.

plural of abandoned property

(law) Property that is found in such a state as to make it likely that the original owner has intentionally given up all dominion and control over the property, with no intent of returning to or recovering the property.

plural of lost property

(law) Property that is found in such a state as to make it likely that the original owner intentionally placed it somewhere, but then forgot to retrieve it from that place, and would be able to locate the property.