 Both Moore and Stilz explore the moral relationship between people and place through invoking the idea of what it means for a people to occupy a place. The central difference between Moore’s and Stilz’s accounts are the different accounts of the holders of occupancy rights. Both agree that the occupancy right-holder must occupy the land legitimately (meaning that it has not displaced someone else) and it must be rooted in that geographical space by the life-plans and projects of the group’s members. However, Stilz’s theory describes the holder of occupancy rights as the individual; and Moore disaggregates different ‘incidents’ of occupancy rights, so that some are held by individuals (which she calls individual residency rights) and some are held by groups (which she calls a group-based occupancy right). The key element, for Moore, in the transition to territorial rights is the group-based occupancy right. Both argue that occupancy requires more than physical presence: the individual and/or group must be rooted in that geographical space by the individual life-plans, and, for Moore, the collective projects of the group’s members.