📌 Property concerns goods, but persons and certain things remain outside its scope.
A person can own property, but cannot become its object.
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1. A buyer claims to own another individual as an object of property, while also owning that individual’s bicycle. Which assessment best reflects the boundary of property?
2. Which statement best describes the scope of property in relation to persons and things?
3. What does legal personality mean in law?
What does property concern, and what remains outside its scope?
Property concerns goods; persons and certain things remain outside its scope.
What capacity does legal personality confer?
The capacity to hold rights and be attributed obligations.
In property law, what role does a legal person occupy in the subject-object relationship?
The subject, not the object.
What do personality rights protect?
Elements of the human person, such as the body, image, voice, or private life.
Which bodily elements are appropriable from a human person?
Organs, tissues, cells, and bodily products such as hair, sperm, and breast milk.
What is the legal-commerce status of the human body as a whole and personal goods?
The body as a whole is outside legal commerce; personal goods are subject to highly restricted and regulated commerce.
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