Private property, or simply "property," is a government-enforced monopoly over an object or privileges which is then used to control or exploit others. God also addresses theft in 1 Kings 21.In this classic example, King Ahab saw Naboth's vineyard, which was close to his own, and coveted it. New York State developed nine property class codes to provide a statewide uniform classification system for assessment administration. "The Lord forbid that I should give you the inheritance of my fathers," Naboth says, sending Ahab home to pout and sulk. In this paper I plan to trace the high regard for property as a constitutional norm throughout much of American history. This article examines one exception private ownership of bottomland based on a King's grant. Though the Earth, and all inferior Creatures be common to all Men, yet every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his.