a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the reasonable use of your property or endangers life and health or is offensive

あなたの資産の合理的な運用を妨げるか、生命と健康を危険にさらすか、不快である何を含む広い法的概念 - 日本語WordNet

When the kazoku system was established, some persons opposed the existence of such a system saying that the system was contrary to the concept of "One emperor and all of the other people are commoners" and that kazoku were useless people eating without doing anything.

華族制度は成立当初、一君万民の概念に背き、天皇と臣民の間を隔てる存在であり、華族は無為徒食の徒であるとして華族制度の存在に反対するものもいた。 - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

In a like manner and for a like reason, in an earlier, non-commercial phase of culture there is less occasion for and greater difficulty in applying the concept of ownership to anything but obviously durable articles.

同じような仕方で、また同じような理由から、文化のより初期の、非商業的段階では、所有権の概念を明らかに耐久性のある品物以外に適用することは、ほとんど根拠がなく、また極めて困難ことである。 - Thorstein Veblen『所有権の起源』