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Who said that 'Ownership is entirety of the power of use and disposal allowed by law'

Sir Frederick Pollock, in A First Book of Jurisprudence, defined ownership as 'the entirety of the powers of use and disposal allowed by law.' Unlike Austin's broader…

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Who said that 'Ownership is entirety of the power of use and disposal allowed by law'

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Sir Frederick Pollock, in A First Book of Jurisprudence, defined ownership as 'the entirety of the powers of use and disposal allowed by law.' Unlike Austin's broader definition of a right indefinite in point of user and unrestricted in point of disposition, Pollock explicitly recognised that an owner's powers of use and disposal are bounded by legal restrictions.

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