personal property

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Its efforts include a proposed ballot measure that would bar retroactive taxes, as well as banning new taxes on personal property, including retirement savings, stocks, bonds and intellectual property.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

Whether or not this is personal property, it still technically falls under probate given that it’s solely in the decedent’s name without a transfer-on-death deed.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 6, 2026

While it’s usually applied when the federal government exercises eminent domain and takes title to land, the takings clause also covers the government’s outright destruction of personal property.

From Slate • Feb. 4, 2026

You 100% should not be going through someone's personal property, especially if you are recording that and then posting that because that is a complete invasion of people's privacy.

From BBC • Jan. 12, 2026

That was enough to make these four boys his personal property.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis