The natural proper of an individual to personal property as a concept may be seen as having roots in Roman regulation in addition to Greek philosophy. The career of appraisal could be seen as beginning in England through the 1500s as agricultural needs required land clearing and land preparation. Textbooks with reference to surveying began to be written and the term “surveying” was utilized in England, whereas the term “appraising” was more utilized in North America. Natural law may be seen as having an affect in Emerich de Vattel’s 1758 treatise The Law of Nations which conceptualized the concept of …
