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How To Do Things With Hohfeld, Pierre Schlag
How To Do Things With Hohfeld, Pierre Schlag
Pierre Schlag
This article provides a comprehensive account of Hohfeld's 1913 article on jural relations and draws out some crucial critical, political, and economic implications. Hohfeld's "platform" is presented as an important contribution to contemporary legal thought and as a powerful antidote for common legal reasoning errors.
Keepings, Donald J. Kochan
Keepings, Donald J. Kochan
Donald J. Kochan
Individuals usually prefer to keep what they own; property law develops around that assumption. Alternatively stated, we prefer to choose whether and how to part with what we own. Just as we hold affection and attachment for our memories, captured in the lyrics of the George Gershwin classic, so too do most individuals adopt a “they can’t take that away from me” approach to property ownership.
We often focus on the means of acquisition or transfer in property law. We look less often at the legal rules that support one’s ability to keep what one owns. Yet, it is precisely …