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The idea of property consists in an established expectation; in the persuasion of being able to draw such or such an advantage from the thing possessed, according to the nature of the case. Now this expectation, this persuasion, can only be the work of law.
The Article examines the private property theory of a 17th century English philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) and its rich impact on the American Founding Fathers, as well as its particular influence on the foundational documents of the new American Republic: The Declaration of Independence, state constitutions, and the federal United States ...
8 paź 2020 · It surveys anthropological insights into three continuing processes of property regime transformation: decolonization, privatization, and enclosure. In addition, it analyses two emergent processes around which property claims are being reconfigured: dematerialization and rematerialization.
A law (or rule or principle) is a statement that summarises an observed regularity or pattern in nature. A scientific theory is a set of statements that, when taken together, attempt to explain a broad class of related phenomena.
As with earlier editions, the seventh edition gives a clear understanding of fundamental legal concepts and their importance within society. In addition, this book addresses the ways in which rules and the structures of law respond to and impact upon changes in economic and political life.
brings together essays that consider, amongst other topics, property and public law, the importance of legal forms in property theory, whether use or exclusion are most essential to our understanding of property, distributive justice, Lockean and Grotian theories, the common ownership of the earth and Confucian ideas of property.
This is Volume 1 of a two volume set written for Property Law. From the Preface: Property, as a vaguely defined collection of contract, tort, and criminal cases, does not take on the natural structure of a substantive area of the law through the systematic study of duty, breach, causation, defenses, and damages.
