Hobbes treats individual property as regulated by stable law, yet dependent on the arbitrary will of the sovereign. In this paper I catalogue the different definitions of property present in his main political and legal works – The Elements of Law (1640), De Cive (1642, 2nd ed. 1647), Leviathan (1651) and A Dialogue between a philosopher and a student (1681) – with the aim of showing how he attempted to square those commitments. I record how the definitions of property affect his views about how sovereigns hold property, the nature of the liability of subjects to having their property confiscated by the sovereign, and the legal conflicts that may arise between subjects and their rulers regarding such confiscations.

霍布斯将个人财产视为受稳定法律监管，但又取决于主权者的任意意志。在本文中，我列出了他的主要政治和法律著作中对财产的不同定义—— 《法律要素》（1640 年）、De Cive（1642 年，第 2 版。1647年）、利维坦（1651 年）和哲学家与学者之间的对话学生（1681 年）——目的是展示他如何试图履行这些承诺。我记录了财产的定义如何影响他对主权者如何持有财产的看法，臣民对其财产被君主没收的责任性质，以及臣民与其统治者之间可能发生的关于这种没收的法律冲突。