On the face value, Locke’s idea of land and his consequent conceptualization of private property was indeed seminal and quite comprehensive in understanding the way in which distinction are drawn between private property and public goods. He asserts that “whatsoever then he removes out of the state that nature hath provided, and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property”. Thus, Locke was of the view that any individual who expends labor in procuring something turns out to be logically his own. If a man picked up acorns under an oak and gathered apples from the tree, the nourishment is completely his own and it is due to him right from the first gathering.