Schmidtz, David. Elements of Justice. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. [[2020-06-09]] Schmidtz spends quite a bit of time defending the principle of first possession. I suppose I would agree with him, but have further questions: 1. How far back do we want to go? 2. What about reparations for times when the principle has been egregiously violated, as in the colonisation of the New World and Africa? 3. Katharina Pistor's book Code of Capital is a good reference on how this principle has been violated or purposefully cast aside whenever it was convenient.