The kid in the beach video says that "possession is 9/10's of the law." Albeit a common misconception, it is a grossly misconstrued perception of the law as it pertains to possession and a misquote as well stemming from mid 20th century lazy American idiology. The earliest written version of it dates back to 1616 when Thomas Draxe wrote "possession is nine points of the Law" in his Bibliotheca Scholastica. The phrase comes from the early English property system, where the right to possession of property was endorsed by the king in the form of nine traditional writs. These writs evolved into the nine original laws defining property ownership, hence the expression "possession is nine points in the law."