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West German Succession to Farm Land1

West German Succession to Farm Land1 COMMENTS power, are an outstanding illustration of this process. Thus, in a degree, prop­ erty has been equated with power, symbolizing the increasingly mythical fic­ tion of control, exclusive, unlimited, and inviolable. But England has shown that this idea is not necessary to preserve civil liberty. VERA BOLGAR* regime. It is sacred and inviolable, and persons guilty of offenses against it shall be regarded as enemies of the people." cited in V. Gsovski, 1 Soviet Civil Law (1948) 562. In addition to codified provisions, two samples from treatises: Vinding Kruse, The Right of Property (1939) 404, 424: "Possession is the external visible relation of power between a person and an external object at any given moment;. . . Th e external relation, possession, is easier for human thought to understand than the other relation, [legal] attribution.... We have seen that ideas of primitive law, to which mankind stubbornly clings in the field of property law more than in any other field, still obscure a free view." Karl Renner, The Institutions of Private Law and their Social Functions, London, 1949, at 107: "We see that the right of ownership thus assumes a new social function. . . a de facto http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Journal of Comparative Law Oxford University Press

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Copyright
© 1953 by The American Association for the Comparative Study of Law, Inc.
ISSN
0002-919X
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2326-9197
DOI
10.2307/837301
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COMMENTS power, are an outstanding illustration of this process. Thus, in a degree, prop­ erty has been equated with power, symbolizing the increasingly mythical fic­ tion of control, exclusive, unlimited, and inviolable. But England has shown that this idea is not necessary to preserve civil liberty. VERA BOLGAR* regime. It is sacred and inviolable, and persons guilty of offenses against it shall be regarded as enemies of the people." cited in V. Gsovski, 1 Soviet Civil Law (1948) 562. In addition to codified provisions, two samples from treatises: Vinding Kruse, The Right of Property (1939) 404, 424: "Possession is the external visible relation of power between a person and an external object at any given moment;. . . Th e external relation, possession, is easier for human thought to understand than the other relation, [legal] attribution.... We have seen that ideas of primitive law, to which mankind stubbornly clings in the field of property law more than in any other field, still obscure a free view." Karl Renner, The Institutions of Private Law and their Social Functions, London, 1949, at 107: "We see that the right of ownership thus assumes a new social function. . . a de facto

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American Journal of Comparative LawOxford University Press

Published: Apr 1, 1953

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