Disttinguished Between Ownership And Posseion
February 10, 2014
Ownership
- The idea of ownership follows the idea of possession.
- The ownership is the de jure recognition of the right
over the property.
- Ownership is the subjective and objective. It signifies
the externally and internally.
- The right of alienation is an essential characteristic
feature of ownership.
- The concept of ownership is used in widest meaning. The
owner has the right to consume, destroy and alienate with his free will.
- The residuary power is vested in the owner.
- Ownership is the guarantee of the law.
- Ownership without possession is right, unaccompanied by
that environment of fact in which it normally realizes itself.
- Ownership strives to realize itself in possession.
- The ownership is left to seek “proprietary remedies”.
- The law of prescription determines the process by
which, through the influence of time, ownership without possession withers
away and dies.
- Transfer: the ownership generally can be transferred by
the way of convincing and registration in case of immovable properties and
by way of delivery in case of movable properties.
- A right in rem can be owned and possessed. But a right
in personam can only be owned.
- “Ownership is a matter of multiple rights”.
- 15. Salmond says: “Whereas ownership is strictly a
legal concept…..
Possession
- First the idea of possession came into existence in the
human civilization.
- Possession is the de facto exercise of a claim over the
property.
- Possession is the objective realization of ownership.
It is the external significance of ownership.
- This right is not seen in possession.
- The concept of possession is narrower in this sense.
The possession has limited rights to consume, destroy and alienate.
- The residuary power is not given to possessor.
- Possession is the guarantee of the facts.
- Possession without ownership is the body of fact,
uniformed by the spirit of right which usually accompanies it.
- Possession to Endeavour’s to justify itself as
ownership.
- The possessor is left with “possessory remedies”.
- The law of prescription determines the process by
which, through the influence of time, possession without title ripens into
ownership.
- Transfer: the possession, comparatively, can easily be
transferred. It does not require conveyancing.
- A right in personam can only be owned, and it cannot be
possessed.
- “Whereas possession in singular, but stronger”.