section_path: Issues in property theory/Ownership
section_name: Ownership
paragraph_text: Ownership
  
  Ownership laws may vary widely among countries depending on the nature of the property of interest (e.g., firearms, real property, personal property, animals). Persons can own property directly. In most societies legal entities, such as corporations, trusts and nations (or governments) own property.
  
  In many countries women have limited access to property following restrictive inheritance and family laws, under which only men have actual or formal rights to own property.
  
  In the Inca empire, the dead emperors, considered gods, still controlled property after death.