| Obligations, Property, Legal Theory | Saturday, 27 July 2024 - 2:12 |
Abstract:
Possession is a legal institute which is treated in every civil or property law textbook in all civil law countries. However, despite numerous works devoted to it, one cannot say what possession precisely means: factual power over a thing, property right, authorization resulting from some kind of property right or something completely different.
Gelev, Dimitar P, About Legal Notion of Possession (June 26, 2015).
First posted 2015-06-29 05:33:52
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