LECTURES ON JURISPRUDENCE. 32 IN LECTURE XLVIII. my last lecture, I proceeded to the first of the two capital departments under which I arrange or distribute the matter of the Law of Things, (or the matter of the bulk or mass of the legal system): namely, primary rights, with their corresponding primary duties. Adverting to primary rights, (or to rights which are not consequences of delicts or injuries,) I proceeded, in the first instance, to rights in rem (or rights availing against the world at large) as existing per se or simply that is to say, as not combined with rights in personam, or rights availing exclusively against specifically determined persons. : Adverting to rights in rem, as existing per se or simply, I first considered them with reference to differences between their respectiye subjects: or (changing the expression) with reference to differences between the aspects of the forbearances which may be styled their objects. I touched upon the rights of the class of which the subjects are things, or of which the objects are such forbearances as regard determinately specifically determined things. I noticed the rights of the class of which the subjects are persons, or of which the objects are such forbearances as regard determinately, specifically determined persons. And I adverted to VOL. III. B |