The trespasses of property law.

The purpose of this article is to identify a limit to the appropriate application of property law to the use and storage of bodily material. I argue here that property law ought to be limited to protecting 'contingent rights' and that recent cases where property rights have been recognised...

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Main Author: Wall, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2014
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