It is a field of law that governs various forms of ownership and rent in real property and personal property, within the framework of the common law legal system. 

In the civil law system, there is a division between movable and immovable property. 

Movable property roughly corresponds to personal property, while immovable property corresponds to real estate and the rights and obligations attached to it. 

The concept, idea or philosophy of property is the basis of property law. In some jurisdictions, all property was historically owned by the king, and it passed through feudal land tenure or other feudal systems of allegiance. 

Although Napoleonic law was among the first acts of government in the modern era to introduce the concept of absolute property into law, protection of personal property rights was present in Islamic law and jurisprudence in the Middle Ages, and in more feudal forms in the common law courts of England in medieval times. Middle and early modern time.