Property’s Subject Matter and Interest

Eric R. Claeys

doi:10.1017/9781108951395.009

4 - Property’s Subject Matter and Interest

from Part II - The Natural Right to Property

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 April 2025

Eric R. Claeys

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Eric R. Claeys: Affiliation:
George Mason University, Virginia

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This chapter explains what property covers and what interest it serves. Property is the field for legal and social relations for separable resources. And property serves an interest people have in acquiring and using separable resources for survival or flourishing. This chapter relies on work by James Penner and Neil MacCormick to introduce separability. This chapter studies property in body parts, names, identities, and slaves.

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property interest use separability body slavery names identities

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Information: Natural Property Rights , pp. 75 - 81

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108951395.009 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2025

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