PRV1 144D2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Seigneurial System Of New France, Roman Law, George Carlyle Marler
1 May 2016
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11:35 am: property in relation to persons having rights in it or possession of it. 1. ownership: history of ownership, land tenures, public domain, private ownership. What can we acquire and how? o. Why do we want to acquire things? o. Scarcity and utility: we protect things through ownership (even if it is collective) What ties the concept of property to that of ownership: notions of common to all and utility. Related b/c what is common to all can be for public utility and therefore non- appropriable (ownership under state) (can have things without owners but not immovables without owners b/c the latter is owned by state) Tension btwn appropriation for some things and that which is common to all: ost wants to protect res communes but knows the state has weird relationship to these. Concept of property is ties to ownership through appropriation o o.
