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The idea of property in law

The common sense view that the right to property is 'the right to things' has long been regarded by lawyers and philosophers as impossible to sustain, given the broad range of property in the law and the reliance of philosophers on ideas of 'property' or 'ownership' to explain complex issues like privacy or civil rights like freedom of speech

Print Book, English, 1997
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, 1997