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Originally published in 1967, this book is a study of witchcraft
and sorcery among the Shona, Ndebele and Kalanga peoples of
Zimbabwe. It analyses in their social context verbatim evidence and
confessions from a comprehensive series of judicial records. It
provides the first systematic demonstration of the importance and
the exstent to which such sources can be used to make a detailed
analysis of the character and range of beliefs and motives. The
main emphasis is on witchcraft and sorcery beliefs, the nature of
accusations, confessions and divination, btoh traditional and as
practised by members of the Pentecostal Church.
Originally published in 1967, this book is a study of witchcraft
and sorcery among the Shona, Ndebele and Kalanga peoples of
Zimbabwe. It analyses in their social context verbatim evidence and
confessions from a comprehensive series of judicial records. It
provides the first systematic demonstration of the importance and
the exstent to which such sources can be used to make a detailed
analysis of the character and range of beliefs and motives. The
main emphasis is on witchcraft and sorcery beliefs, the nature of
accusations, confessions and divination, btoh traditional and as
practised by members of the Pentecostal Church.
Many of the most influential contributions to private law
scholarship in the latter part of the twentieth century go beyond
purely doctrinal accounts of private law. A distinctive feature of
these analyses is that they straddle the divide between legal
philosophy, on the one hand, and the sort of traditional doctrinal
analysis applied by the courts, on the other. The essays contained
in this collection continue in this tradition. The collection is
divided into two parts. The essays contained in the first part
consider the nature of, and justification for, private rights
generally. The essays in the second part address the justification
for particular private law rights and doctrines. Offering
insightful and innovative analyses, this collection will appeal to
scholars in all fields of private law and legal theory.
Possession is a foundational concept in property law. Despite its
undoubted importance, it is poorly understood and a perennial
source of confusion. Indeed, there is a widely held view amongst
lawyers that possession is an irredeemably ambiguous and amorphous
concept. This book aims to challenge this conventional wisdom and
to demonstrate that possession is in fact far simpler than
generations of lawyers have been led to believe. In viewing
possession as a knotty problem for the philosopher or legal
theoretician, scholars are apt to overlook the important truth that
possession is a concept that laymen routinely and, for the most
part, effortlessly apply as they navigate through the countless
property interactions that shape everyday life. The key to
understanding the nature and function of possession in the law is
to appreciate that the possession ‘rule’ is, first and
foremost, a spontaneously emergent phenomenon. Possession describes
those acts that, as a matter of an extra-legal convention,
constitute the accepted way in which members of a given population
stake their claims to tangible things. Fusing traditional legal
analysis with insights from philosophy and economics, An Expressive
Theory of Possession applies this central claim to both theoretical
and doctrinal problems in property law and, in doing so, provides a
coherent explanation of possession and its role in law and life.
Possession is a foundational concept in property law. Despite its
undoubted importance, it is poorly understood and a perennial
source of confusion. Indeed, there is a widely held view amongst
lawyers that possession is an irredeemably ambiguous and amorphous
concept. This book aims to challenge this conventional wisdom and
to demonstrate that possession is in fact far simpler than
generations of lawyers have been led to believe. In viewing
possession as a knotty problem for the philosopher or legal
theoretician, scholars are apt to overlook the important truth that
possession is a concept that laymen routinely and, for the most
part, effortlessly apply as they navigate through the countless
property interactions that shape everyday life. The key to
understanding the nature and function of possession in the law is
to appreciate that the possession 'rule' is, first and foremost, a
spontaneously emergent phenomenon. Possession describes those acts
that, as a matter of an extra-legal convention, constitute the
accepted way in which members of a given population stake their
claims to tangible things. Fusing traditional legal analysis with
insights from philosophy and economics, An Expressive Theory of
Possession applies this central claim to both theoretical and
doctrinal problems in property law and, in doing so, provides a
coherent explanation of possession and its role in law and life.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
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Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
Many of the most influential contributions to private law
scholarship in the latter part of the twentieth century go beyond
purely doctrinal accounts of private law. A distinctive feature of
these analyses is that they straddle the divide between legal
philosophy, on the one hand, and the sort of traditional doctrinal
analysis applied by the courts, on the other. The essays contained
in this collection continue in this tradition. The collection is
divided into two parts. The essays contained in the first part
consider the nature of, and justification for, private rights
generally. The essays in the second part address the justification
for particular private law rights and doctrines. Offering
insightful and innovative analyses, this collection will appeal to
scholars in all fields of private law and legal theory.
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