property law
Sign in to savearea of law governing ownership of real and personal property
In the Vinony graph
Within Vinony's link graph, property law is referenced by 2,016 other articles, and connects out to statute, contract and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.
It is catalogued under topics including Common law, Common law legal systems and Property law.
Its subject is documented across 30 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- area of law
- Subclass of
- civil law
- Main subject
- possession
- Image
- Property Law - Gavel and Block and House Keys.jpg
- Said to be same as
- ius de re
Show 4 more facts
- topic has template
- Template:Property law
- topic's main category
- Category:Property law
- Commons category
- Property law
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
via Wikidata · CC0
~25 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Property law is the area of law that governs the various forms of ownership in real property (land) and personal property. Property refers to legally protected claims to resources, such as land and personal property, including intellectual property. Property can be exchanged through contract law, and if property is violated, one could sue under tort law to protect it.
The concept, idea or philosophy of property underlies all property law. In some jurisdictions, historically all property was owned by the monarch and it devolved through feudal land tenure or other feudal systems of loyalty and fealty.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “property law” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.