Property and Trade
Who owns it? What did they agree to transfer? What actually happened? Use these three questions to distinguish an honest exchange, a deceptive sale, and a forced taking.
Property rights determine who may control scarce resources: things whose uses can conflict. You own your body; other resources become yours through first use of something unowned or voluntary transfer from an owner. Making something valuable does not itself make it yours.
A contract transfers ownership, immediately or on agreed conditions. A bare promise does not. Later regret does not reverse a completed transfer.
Price is what someone pays, not a measure of their subjective value. Copying a pattern does not itself take property. Fraud uses deception to obtain or use another's property without their informed consent. Paying an unwilling owner does not purchase their property.
You own an apple; I own £1. We agree to exchange them and hand them over. I now own the apple; you own the £1. Title simply means ownership. Neither of us can undo the exchange just by changing our mind.