Land ownership conveyed the right to profit from land, not the right to exclude all others from it

How I learnt to hate the landowner and love the rambler
Independent, The (London), Mar 9, 1999 by David Aaronovitch

“And yet, until 300 years ago our forebears walked more or less wherever they wanted. Paths marked the most convenient ways to travel, not - as today - the only permitted ways. Land ownership conveyed the right to profit from land, not the right to exclude all others from it. And then we allowed all this to disappear, and - for the best part of two centuries - the rights of landowners increased at the expense of all the other subjects of the Crown. Forests were enclosed or destroyed, common land was seized, rights of way were barred and the right to hunt wild animals was aggrandised by the few.”

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