Comparisons of property laws require an understanding of what is living law, governing and structuring social practice and social expectations, and what are instead the intellectual tools that lawyers use to rationalise, structure, and represent property rules in conceptual terms. Many of the differences between the common law and the civil law – even those that are often presented as distinctive of each legal tradition – should be considered as relating mostly to what jurists and lawyers have done to frame property law in intellectual terms. This chapter takes a critical look at how these narratives are construed and upheld. The analysis set out by the author tackles a few problems, namely to what extent common law and civil law systems rely on different ontologies of property law, and how these ontologies have been historicised through different genealogies, and expressed through language. The author claims that a comparative analysis disentangling these various aspects of the subject may help to advance a better understanding of what different property law systems achieve.

The structure of property ownership and the common law / civil law divide

Graziadei
2017-01-01

Abstract

Comparisons of property laws require an understanding of what is living law, governing and structuring social practice and social expectations, and what are instead the intellectual tools that lawyers use to rationalise, structure, and represent property rules in conceptual terms. Many of the differences between the common law and the civil law – even those that are often presented as distinctive of each legal tradition – should be considered as relating mostly to what jurists and lawyers have done to frame property law in intellectual terms. This chapter takes a critical look at how these narratives are construed and upheld. The analysis set out by the author tackles a few problems, namely to what extent common law and civil law systems rely on different ontologies of property law, and how these ontologies have been historicised through different genealogies, and expressed through language. The author claims that a comparative analysis disentangling these various aspects of the subject may help to advance a better understanding of what different property law systems achieve.
2017
Comparative property law: global perspectives
Edward Elgar
Research handbooks in comparative law
71
99
978 1 84844 757 8
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