Abstract
Sometimes rights are taken to describe concrete, bottom-line entitlements, sometimes a kind of ground of such entitlements. I suggest that this difference reflects not so much disagreement or uncertainty as to the nature of rights as different applications and senses of the term ‘right’, each expressing a different idea or concept. Much work on rights is compromised by a failure to distinguish these concepts of a right, nowhere more so than in private law, where it accounts for difficulties lawyers have faced when seeking to distinguish personal (in personam) and proprietary (in rem) rights.
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Charlie Webb, Three Concepts of Rights, Two of Property, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqy006. Published: 23 March 2018.
First posted 2018-03-27 05:48:41
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