• while serving as Governor of New Hampshire from 1842 to 1844, Henry Hubbard argued for reduced taxes for female property owners?

Facts on topics related to Property

Law

• legal experts consider the YouTube divorce video posted by British playwright Tricia Walsh-Smith be the first of its kind?
• Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne, professor of law and rector of the University of Oslo, was a nephew of Norwegian Prime Minister Frederik Stang?
• Leonard McEwan, in an unusual move, stepped down from the Wyoming Supreme Court in 1974 to become instead a district court judge in Sheridan, where he had earlier practiced law?
• collecting Toyon branches for Christmas became so popular in Los Angeles, California in the 1920s, that the state passed a law forbidding collecting?
• the Satversme is intended to hold together all other laws in Latvia?

Human rights

• 1,200 journalists, human rights advocates, and leftist activists have been killed in the Philippines as a result of Gloria Arroyo's counter-insurgency program "Oplan Bantay Laya"?
• Filipino human rights activist Etta Rosales was instrumental in bargaining a compromise deal between the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos and some of its victims?
• human rights activist Chiang Peng-chien was the first chairperson of the Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan?
• China has sought to cultivate strong ties with Burma by providing extensive aid and vetoing a UN resolution proposed in 2007 condemning Burma for human rights violations?
• Uruguayan Senator Rafael Michelini, whose father Zelmar was assassinated, is a politician active in human rights issues?
• Ava Helen Pauling, an American human rights activist and wife of Nobel laureate Linus Pauling, was a three-time national vice president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom?
• leading Canadian human rights activist Kalmen Kaplansky died in 1997 on International Human Rights Day?
• the 1980 novel One Day of Life was banned in El Salvador for its portrayal of human rights violations by the government's paramilitary organization, Organización Democrática Nacionalista?
• the U.S. Senate rejected Ernest W. Lefever for a State Department human rights post, a nomination opposed by his two brothers who claimed he supported views that "blacks were genetically inferior"?
• the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum recorded over 1,200 violations of human rights in Zimbabwe by the law enforcement agencies from 2001 to September 2006?

Sharia

• in Islamic law, a mukataba is a contract of manumission according to which the slave buys his freedom from his master?

Liberty

• in 1725, Louis Congo received freedom from slavery in exchange for becoming the public executioner of Louisiana?

Culture

• German philosopher Leo Frobenius thought that all non-European culture in Africa had to be the result of a white civilization which he called the African Atlantis?
• Lauriston Sharp, a professor of anthropology at Cornell University, studied the indigenous culture of four continents?

Nuisance

• in Miller v. Jackson the Court of Appeal of England and Wales found that a cricket club was liable in negligence and nuisance when sixes were hit over the boundary onto neighbouring property, and that it is best known for the lyrical dissenting judgment of Lord Denning, MR?
• the loss of television reception—caused by the Canary Wharf Tower—for several hundred households was held not to be a nuisance in Hunter v Canary Wharf Ltd?

Property rights

• California State Route 174, which includes a historic 1924 bridge, was not designated a State Scenic Highway due to opposition by residents concerned about their property rights?