Private property is inviolable.

The French Declaration of Human Rights stipulates the following about property:

Article 17

Private property is sacred and inviolable, and no one can be deprived of it unless it is obviously necessary for public needs recognized by law and under the conditions of fairness and pre-compensation.

The Declaration of Human Rights (1Declaration of Human Rights and Citizenship promulgated on August 26th, 789) is a programmatic document promulgated during the French Revolution. Jelinek, a German scholar, thinks that the Bill of Rights is a bill of rights based on the constitutions of American states, or even "basically copying the bill of rights of North American states". Emile Boutemy, a French scholar, thinks that the French version of the Bill of Rights is original in France, and the Bill of Rights in North America and Europe originated from "the spirit of18th century". There is no consensus in academic circles on this point so far. To be sure, the declaration did adopt the enlightenment theory and natural rights theory of18th century. Among them, freedom, property, security and resistance to oppression are inalienable human rights, freedom of speech, belief, works and publication is affirmed, and the principles of separation of powers, equality before the law and inviolability of private property are expounded.