The natural right to property is included in the Ten Commandments.

"The same principle is confirmed and enforced by the civil laws-laws which, so long as they are just, derive from the law of nature their binding force.

The authority of the divine law adds its sanction, forbidding us in severest terms even to covet that which is another's:

"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife; nor his house, nor his field, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is his.""