 Distributive justice, insofar as it is the sovereign's justice, governs also the enjoyment of property rights. The sovereign (in the political case, the community or its appointee) retains a form of superior ownership (which he terms “supreme dominium”) over private possessions (Disputatio de Iustitia 1.12, in Suárez, Opera omnia XI). This means that the sovereign can withdraw your property rights, say over your car, and transfer them to someone else (say, to be used for security patrols). You could lodge a complaint that your private ownership of the car was more conducive to social utility (say, because you are a doctor). By lodging this complaint, however, you would not be claiming a violation of your property rights (as in the case of theft), but rather, of your right to property rights under agreed, public criteria regulating their allocation.