Real Property Rights - A Person-Land-Society relation

Dispositions: The content
of Real Property Rights
Unit of Real Estate: The object
of Real Property Rights
Physical dispositions
- use, possess, gain usufructs
- construct, fence

Legal dispositions
- sell, inherit
- mortgage, use as collateral
- lease, rent
- subdivide, change shape
- grant easement

A parcel of the surface of the Earth
- horizontal and vertical boundary
- delimitation relative to movables

Definitions according to statute law
- Unit of cadastre
- Unit of land registry
- Unit according to agric. law
- Unit of property taxation
- Condominium

The context for dispositions regarding Real Estate
Restrictions of R P R
  • Compulsory purchase (expropriation)
  • Purchase restrictions
  • Spatial planning
  • Adverse possession
Infrastructure of R P R
  • (Police) Protection of privacy
  • Solving title and boundary disputes
  • Performance of forced sales 
  • Maintenance of cadastral and land registry system
  • Protection of boundary marks
Erik Stubkjær, est@i4.auc.dk
Seminar: Design of PhD-research, August 2001, AAU; edited 2001-10-06