[ox-en] Re: Role of ownership
- From: Gregers Petersen <gp.ioa cbs.dk>
- Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:21:44 +0100
Hi Stefan
Stefan Meretz wrote:
Hi Raoul,
one underlying distinction I made discussing the role of ownership is
formal or legal ownership and possession (you can possess a flat, while
don't owning it).
Both formal and legal ownership are political categories - non of them
are in anyway objective, but exclusively dependent on local cultural
categories - and 'possession' is more often than not (at least in a
western context) based on 'common law' (the law is created and/or
refined by judges) which makes it somewhat difficult to make the
distinction you mention - due to 'possession' being underwritten by a
legal complex.
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