Contents Contents Preface .......... Acknowledgements ........... A Note to Students 11 X1V Part One Chapter One: The Concept of Property International News v Associated Press Notes and Questions ........ Victoria Park Racing v Taylor . Notes and Questions ...... Cohen Dialogue on Property Questions .......... Some Basic Distinctions ........ Statutory Definitions of Property . Questions ........... A Judicial Definition of Property .. Notes and Questions . .. Chapter Two: Justifications for Property Sovereignty or Occupation Theory ...... Blackstone Commentaries . Note .covismesmns Pierson v Post ........ Notes and Questions .... Labour Theory .. Locke Two Treatises on Civil Government . . Notes .......... Utilitarianism ........ Bentham Principles of the Civil Code Notes and Questions ....... Marxist Approaches to Property . .. Marx and Engels Manifesto of the Communist Party ............... Notes and Questions ........ Property in the Welfare State . 22 _t ~ ’ Y 7 36 37 37 38 39 “0 0 i 31 37 57 58 61 62