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The Metaphysics Of Tracing: Substituted Title And Property Rhetoric, Craig Rotherham
The Metaphysics Of Tracing: Substituted Title And Property Rhetoric, Craig Rotherham
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
Tracing is conceptualized as the "following" of an object through an exchange transaction and into the product of that exchange. Why is this so and what are the consequences? This article argues that the presentation of tracing in the metaphysical language of transmutation allows the doctrine to be depicted as consistent with axiomatic notions of property that understand it as pre-political and that preclude judicial readjustment of proprietary rights. However, the metaphysical conceptualization of tracing gives the remedy a conceptual structure that has resulted in the doctrine developing dysfunctionally when compared with the normative justifications that motivated its initial development. …