Right and Duty — KSLU Jurisprudence Notes

Right and Duty

A legal right is an interest recognised and protected by law (Salmond); every right has five elements — holder, object, content, correlative duty-bearer, and title. Rights and duties are correlative: my right that you pay implies your duty to pay. Kinds that recur in the paper: perfect/imperfect; positive/negative; rights in rem [against the world — ownership, reputation] vs rights in personam [against a determinate person — contract]; proprietary/personal; legal/equitable; vested/contingent; principal/accessory.