Legalism : property and ownership / edited by Georgy Kantor, Tom Lambert, and Hannah Skoda.

"In this fourth volume of the Legalism series, ownership is defined as the simple fact of being able to describe something as 'mine' or 'yours', and property is distinguished as the discursive field which allows the articulation of attendant rights, relationships, and obligations. Property is often...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Legalism (Series) ; 4.
Corporate Author: University of Oxford
Other Authors: Kantor, Georgy, 1980- (Editor)
Lambert, T. B. (Thomas Benedict), 1981- (Editor)
Skoda, Hannah, 1981- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Legalism (Series) ; 4.
Subjects:
Property.
Possession (Law)
Physical Description:xii, 300 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Variant Title:
Property and ownership
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Property and ownership : an overview / Georgy Kantor, Tom Lambert, and Hannah Skoda
  • Cows and the sharīʻah in the Abéché Customary Court (Eastern Chad) / Judith Scheele
  • Property in land in Roman provinces / Georgy Kantor
  • Property and possession in medieval Celtic societies / T.M. Charles-Edwards
  • The afterlife of property : affect, time, value / Matthew S. Erie
  • Jurisdiction as property in England, 900-1100 / Tom Lambert
  • 'Everything belongs to God' : Sayyid Qutb's theory of property and social justice / Walter Rech
  • A sea of profit : making property in the Western Indian Ocean / Jatin Dua
  • Fish as property on the Small Aral Sea, Kazakhstan / William Wheeler
  • People as property in medieval Dubrovnik / Hannah Skoda.