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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]

Right to Property

Izabela Jędrzejowska-Schiffauer

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Encyclopedia entries
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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]
Article last updated:
March 2024

From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 07 December 2024

Subject(s):
Public interest — Private property — Right to property — Social rights — Individual rights — Limitations on rights — Fundamental rights

General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani

1 In grossly simplified terms, the right to property refers to a constitutionally protected entitlement of natural or legal persons to own, use, and dispose of their belongings. As a fundamental right, the right to property enjoys protection under national, transnational (European Union (‘EU’)), and international (both universal and regional) legal orders (fundamental rights). However, in some legal systems, the constitutional status of the right to property does not equate to its recognition as a fundamental (human) right. The traditional function of property...
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