Basic Principles of Property Law: A Comparative Legal and Economic Introduction, Vol. 93

Author: Ugo Mattei
Published: September 2000
ISBN: 0313311862
Hardcover Book
Number of Pages: 232

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The first attempt to address comparative property law in a common integrative framework, this study discusses German, Italian, French, American, and British property law as mere variations based upon a few fundamental themes through which these nations developed legal systems to provide responses to common economic problems and to set legal foundations for working markets. Basic Principles of Property Law was produced to offer a common framework for the discussion of the law of property within countries in transition, thus it has its basis, not on just one legal system, but on the institutional commonalties that make western property law a working market institution. It offers a major challenge to conventional thinking that in property law the differences between common law and civil law are so important that "common core" research is impossible. Discusses German, Italian, French, American, and British property law as mere variations based upon a few fundamental themes through which these nations developed legal systems to provide responses to common economic problems and to set legal foundations for working markets. Mattei (law and economics, U. of California-Hastings and property, U. of Turin, Italy) offers a comparison of basic principles of property law, drawn from the law in Italy, France, Germany, the US, and England. Taking an abstract approach, the nine chapters cover history, sources, economic analysis, the object of property rights, transfer of ownership, the power to use ownership, the limits and liabilities of ownership, remedies, and loss of ownership.

Table of Contents
Preface
1 History 1
2 Sources 29
3 Economic Analysis 51
4 The Object of Property Rights 75
5 Transfer of Ownership 99
6 The Power to Use Ownership 123
7 Negative Aspects of Ownership: Limits and Liabilities 147
8 Remedies 171
9 Loss of Ownership 193
Index 207

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