Property rights and their violations - La propri?t? viol?e: Expropriations and confiscations, 16 th -20 th Centuries- Expropriations et confiscations,

Interest in the history of ownership rights is growing and spreading to different disciplines. Historians are turning their attention mainly to the rise of private and individual ownership as it was codified in 19th-century liberal Europe. In writing this history, however, their perspective has too often ignored the other side of the coin, namely the restrictions which the sovereign imposed on such rights, allegedly in the interest of the community.
The papers collected in the present volume suggest that private property is not necessarily the most safeguarded legal model, hence it is not less vulnerable to violation. They construct a close analysis of the most common forms of abuse of private property on record - expropriation, seizure, and confiscation - perpetrated by public authorities. They also seek to define the uneasy, often intricate relation between legal and legitimate. In a perspective of lights and shadows, the role of confiscation and expropriation changes: now seen as powerful instruments of change, now as enduring factors of conservation in the evolution of private ownership rights.
Les droits de propri?t? sont depuis longtemps au coeur de l'int?r?t de diverses disciplines. L'attention des historiens s'est focalis?e surtout sur la naissance de la propri?t? priv?e et individuelle telle qu'elle a ?t? codifi?e dans l'Europe lib?rale du XIXe si?cle. Toutefois, son histoire a trop souvent n?glig? l'autre face de la m?daille, ? savoir les limites fix?es ? ce droit par le souverain au nom de l'int?r?t de la collectivit?. Les contributions figurant dans ce volume sugg?rent que la propri?t? priv?e individuelle ne repr?sente pas le mod?le juridique le plus apte ? la prot?ger face aux risques d'infraction. Au coeur des analyses il y a les formes historiques de la violation de la propri?t? priv?e - expropriations, saisies, confiscations - perp?tr?es par les autorit?s et le rapport, souvent complexe et ambig?e, entre les dimensions de la l?galit? et de la l?gitimit?. Dans un jeu d'ombres et de lumi?res, les confiscations et les expropriations se dessinent ? la fois comme de puissants instruments de changement et de tenaces facteur de conservation dans l'?volution des formes de propri?t?.

Author: Luigi Lorenzetti

Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P

Publication Date: Aug 07, 2012

Number of Pages: 322 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 3034306687

ISBN-13: 9783034306683