Three related properties of a module are investigated in this article, namely the Nakayama property, the Maximal property, and the S-property. A module M has the Nakayamapropertyif aM=M for an ideal a implies that sM=0 for some s∈a+1. A module M has the Maximal property if there is in M a maximal proper submodule, and finally, M is said to have the S-property if S^{−1}M = 0 for a multiplicatively closed set S implies that sM=0 for some s∈S.