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Commodity & Propriety: Competing Visions of Property in American Legal Thought, 1776-1970

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Commodity & Propriety: Competing Visions of Property in American Legal Thought, 1776-1970 - Alexander, Gregory S
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Most people understand property as something that is owned, a means of creating individual wealth. But in Commodity and Propriety , the first full-length history of the meaning of property, Gregory Alexander uncovers in American legal writing a competing vision of property that has existed alongside the traditional conception. Property, Alexander argues, has also been understood as proprietary , a mechanism for creating and maintaining a properly ordered society. This view of property has even operated in periods--such as ...

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Commodity & Propriety: Competing Visions of Property in American Legal Thought, 1776-1970 1999, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226013541

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Commodity & Propriety: Competing Visions of Property in American Legal Thought, 1776-1970 1998, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226013534

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