Lockean proviso
The term "Lockean proviso" was coined in 1974 by Robert Nozick to describe an interpretation of John Locke's labor theory of property, which states that whilst individuals have a right to homestead private property from nature by working on it, they can do so only if "there was still enough, and as good left; and more than the yet unprovided could use". == Locke's formulation == Preliminary wording central to Locke's concept of property is set out in Chapter V, paragraph 27 of his Second Treatise of Government:Though the earth, and all inferior creatures, be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person: this no body has any right to but himself.