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