Property and the Right to Exclude

Authors

Thomas W. Merrill, Columbia Law SchoolFollow

Abstract

I. Introduction

II. The Right to Exclude and the Concept of Property ... A. Points of Consensus ... B. Three Schools of Thought Regarding the Right to Exclude

III. The Primacy of the Right to Exclude ... A. The Logical Primacy of the Right to Exclude ... B. The Historical Primacy of the Right to Exclude ... C. The Ubiquity of the Right to Exclude

IV. Some Qualifications and Implications

V. Conclusion

Recommended Citation

Thomas W. Merrill, Property and the Right to Exclude, 77 Neb. L. Rev. (1998)
Available at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nlr/vol77/iss4/7