Second Section. Contract

Property, of which the side of determinate being, or of externality, is no longer merely a thing but contains within itself the moment of a will (and hence of another will), comes about through contract — as the process in which the contradiction is displayed and mediated: that I am and remain an owner existing for myself, excluding the will of another, precisely insofar as I, in a will identical with the other’s, cease to be an owner.