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The Lockean proviso is a feature 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".[1]
- ^ John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, Chapter V, paragraph 33.