Grotius Property Right and Necessity Right

Droit de propriété et droit de nécessité chez Grotius

Jean-Fabien Spitz
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Jean-Fabien Spitz: UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

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Abstract: The paper shows that Grotius' initial and major claim is that the primitive community is a positive one which gives any member of the human species an equal right to use natural resources in order to provide for his subsistence. The situation of pressing necessity – which cancels all private rights and causes a return to the initial positive community – illustrates this subordination of the subjective right of property to the general right of access to natural resources.

Keywords: Grotius; property; subjective right; positive community; right to life; propriété; droit subjectif; communauté positive; droit à la vie (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-12-24
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Published in Revue d'histoire de la pensée économique, 2019, Revue d'histoire de la pensée économique 2019 – 2, n° 8 varia, 2019 – 2 (n° 8), pp.125-151

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