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PROPERTY
INTRODUCTION:-
The term ‘property’ that is often used to describe object owned by a person.
Property can also be described as something whose right to ownership can be
expanded. Therefore, a property can include a living as well as a non-living
thing.
Meaning of property:-
The term property is not a term belonging to art. It has been used in a various of
senses. The property includes all the legal rights of a person,no matter what his
description is.
❏ According to Blackstone: “The inferior hath no kind of property in the
company,care or assistance of the superior,as the superior is held to have
those of the inferior”.
❏ According to Locke: “Every man has a property in his person.EVery
individual has the right to preserve his property, that is,his wife,liberty and
estate.
Meaning of property:
In the narrowest possible sense, the property includes nothing more than
corporeal property or the right of ownership for material things.
Austin believed that property can have different meaning at different times. It
could be used to denote the greatest rights of enjoyment known to law
excluding servitydes or it could also be life interests or something even
servitudes. It could be the whole set of assets owned by a person
includingnboth rights in-rem and rights in personam.
Kinds of property
CORPOREAL PROPERTY