Property is a legal construct. (“Fiction” implies that legal constructs are intended to say something about external reality, such that there could also be cont

Property is a legal construct. (“Fiction” implies that legal constructs are intended to say something about external reality, such that there could also be contrasting “legal nonfiction”, but all the constructs are equally constructed and equally not dictated by reality but instead by what someone thinks will have desirable effects on reality.) The question for any category of property is whether it is a socially useful construct or not, not whether it has a basis is nature.