Book contents
- Wesley Hohfeld A Century Later
- Wesley Hohfeld A Century Later
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction: Hohfeld at the Crossroads
- Some Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning
- Selected Personal Papers of Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld
- Part I Philosophy of Jural Relations
- Part II Hohfeld and Property
- Part III Hohfeld and Equity
- 8 Hohfeld’s Equity
- 9 The Essential Nature of Trusts and Other Equitable Interests: Two and a Half Cheers for Hohfeld
- 10 General and Particular Jural Relations
- Part IV Hohfeldian Complexities
- Part V Hohfeld and Society
- Index
10 - General and Particular Jural Relations
from Part III - Hohfeld and Equity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 July 2022
- Wesley Hohfeld A Century Later
- Wesley Hohfeld A Century Later
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction: Hohfeld at the Crossroads
- Some Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning
- Selected Personal Papers of Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld
- Part I Philosophy of Jural Relations
- Part II Hohfeld and Property
- Part III Hohfeld and Equity
- 8 Hohfeld’s Equity
- 9 The Essential Nature of Trusts and Other Equitable Interests: Two and a Half Cheers for Hohfeld
- 10 General and Particular Jural Relations
- Part IV Hohfeldian Complexities
- Part V Hohfeld and Society
- Index
Summary
Hohfeld set out to precisify jural relations in a series of articles culminating in a book.1 His basic scheme of rights, privileges, powers, and immunities and their correlatives and opposites is hard to dispute and helps bring clarity to law. The project, however, was not complete at the time of his death and leaves several important questions unanswered. One problem Hohfeld mentioned in his final article was the problem of “common (or general) and specific (or particular) relations.” In this chapter, I will speculate about what he might have said about these subcategories of relations and what difficulties they might have raised for his overall scheme.
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- Wesley Hohfeld A Century LaterEdited Work, Select Personal Papers, and Original Commentaries, pp. 331 - 342Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022