Yes, your person is sort of as a boat as you will and you choose in what direction to push it as well as influencing others which way to push theirs, into the light of knowledge or further into darkness where problems are identified but never dealt with to find a solution, the i do not want to know kind of people.
Also if you go one verse more in Deuteronomy to 15-4 it says to possess, NOT to own.
23:20 is one of those key versus as related to strangers of foreigners that makes distinction between origination and incorporation.
http://rydersreformers.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/fl_polkcounty_ackdeed.pdf
Land reclaiming itself by prescription.
Land ;
" 6. The inhabitants of a country or region; a nation or people. "
Prescription ;
" 2. In law, prescribing for title; the claim of title to a thing by virtue of immemorial use and enjoyment; or the right to a thing derived from such use. Prescription differs from custom, which is a local usage. Prescription is a personal usage,usage annexed to the person. Nothing but incorporeal hereditaments can be claimed by prescription."