PT159.S2.P4.Q24

PrepTest 159 - Section 2 - Passage 4 - Question 24

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P1

For most of the past century, scholars in the Anglo-American legal tradition have been skeptical of the view that legal ownership is a matter of possessing any single right. ████ ████ █████████ ███ ████ ████ █████████ ██ █ ███████ ██ ███████ ███████ ████ ██████████ ████████ █████████ ██ ██████ ███████ █████ ██████ ███ ██████ ██ ██████ █████ ██████████ ███ █████ ████████████ ███ ███████ ██ █████████ ███ ██ ████ ███ █████████ ███████ █████████ ██ ███ ██████████ ██ █████████ █████████ ████████ ████ █████ ███ ███ ██ ██████ █████████████ ██ █████████ ██ ██████ █ ███████ ██ ███████ ████████ █████████ ███ ██ ████ ██████ ███

“Bundle of rights” perspective · Legal ownership involves multiple rights
The rights that are in the bundle arise from past judicial decisions in various legal cases. So ownership doesn’t constrain how judges decide property conflicts.
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“Boundary theory” perspective · Legal ownership is the right to exclude others from a thing
Ownership does constrain how judges decide property conflicts.
P2

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Author’s critique of “boundary theory” · Doesn’t explain crucial aspects of ownership
Although it’s right that ownership constrains judges’ decisions, it focuses on who is excluded from ownership.
P3

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Criticism continued · Ownership is about having an special position in relation to the object.
It’s not just about excluding others from the object.
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“Agend-setting” theory · Properly considers ownership as a special position to set the agenda for the resource
This is better than the “boundary” theory and the “bundle of rights” theory.
Passage Style
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24.

Which one of the following ██ ████ ████████ ███████ ██ ███ ████████████████ ██████ █████████ ██ ███ ████████

a

Two owners of ████████ ██████████ █████ ███ ███████ ███ ████ ██████ █████████ █████ ███████████

Supported by the fact that the theory considers ownership to consist of an "open ended" bundle of rights that arise from various individual judicial decisions. This suggests that ownership doesn't always consist of the exact same set of rights in every single case.

44%
b

An owner is ████████ ██ ███████ ███ ████████ █████ ██ █████████ ██████ ████ ███ █████ █████████

We have no evidence that the "bundle of rights" theory requires that an owner be able to exclude others from the property. Exclusion is discussed in connection with the other theories.

9%
c

The agenda for ██ ██████ █████ ████ ███████ █████████ ████ ███ ███ ██ ███ ███████

We have no evidence about what the "bundle of rights" theory has to say about the "agenda" for an object. The idea of an agenda is mentioned only in connection with the "agenda-setting" theory.

7%
d

Ownership is an █████████ █████ ███████ ███ ███████ ██ █████████ ██ ████ ████████

We have no evidence that the "bundle of rights" theory considers ownership to be an exclusive right. Exclusion is discussed in connection with the other theories.

7%
e

Ownership is an █████████ █████ ███████ ███ ███████ ██ █████████ ██ ████ ██████

We have no evidence that the "bundle of rights" theory considers ownership to be an exclusive right. Exclusion is discussed in connection with the other theories.

33%

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