Property in legal sense means an aggregate of rights which are guaranteed and protected by law. It extends to every species of valuable right and interest, more particularly, ownership and exclusive right to a thing, the right to dispose of things in every legal way to possess it, to use it and to exclude everyone else from interfering with it. The dominion or indefinite right of use or disposition which one may lawfully exercise over particular things or subjects is called property.________ (Jilubhai Nanbhia Khachar etc. etc Vs. State of Gujarat & Anr., AIR 1995 SC 142)

The Court further observed that a person who is deprived of his property without authority of law is entitled to compensation.___________CLT Vol. 108 (88)