(Encyclopedia of Law and Economics 5) Boudewijn Bouckaert-Property Law and Economics -Edward Elgar Publishing (2010)
.pdfTulk v Moxhay (1848) 147
Turkey 193, 217
Turnbull, Geoffrey 139, 199, 200
Ulpian 10
uncertainty costs 184, 187–8, 195 Unicitral 43
Unidroit draft Convention on intermediated securities 43
Uniform Commercial Code 284, 286–7
Uniform Domain-Name DisputeResolution Policy (UDRP) 197
Uniform Simplification of Land Transfer Act (1976) (US) 193
United Kingdom (UK) England see England industrialization 205–6, 217 privatization of forests 258
slavery and abolition 205–6, 217 wildlife 118
United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change 249
General Assembly 217 United States (US)
adverse possession 108, 183, 186, 188
bankruptcy see security interests, creditors’ priorities and bankruptcy
bankruptcy judges 277 Civil War 208, 211, 217
clean air see Clean Air Act (1970) (US)
communal proprietorship 66 Congress 131, 243–6, 253, 296 Constitution 245
contracts establishing property rights 113–14
decomposition of property rights 128–9, 130–32
Department of Justice 56 easements 139–40
enclosure of public land 228, 256 environmental goods and tradeable pollution rights 239–49
Clean Air Act’s sulfur dioxide allowance trading programme 243–7
Index 335
development of property rightsbased environmental regulations 239–43
other pollution ‘rights’ trading schemes 247–9
Environmental Protection Agency 239–42, 245–9
equitable servitudes 149 Federal Agency Regulatory
Commission 247
Federal Bureau of Reclamation 254 Federal timber management
policies, failures in 254 first appropriation 108–9, 113,
120–21
General Accounting Office 247 National Ambient Air Quality Standards 240–42, 248
Native Americans see Native Americans
nuisance 161–2, 178 open-access regimes 56 personalty 153 prescription statutes 188–9
privatization of public lands 257 rangeland grazing management,
failures in 228, 254 real covenants 142–6
recordation of transactions 191, 193, 198, 200–201
slavery 3, 203, 205–6, 207–17, 219 abolition 217
efficiency of 216–17 profitability of 211–16
‘takings’ doctrine 128
wildlife and wild animals 118, 153
United States v Causby (1946) 228, 235
unitization contracts 68–9, 116 usage, division of land by see under
decomposition of property rights
usufructs 11, 18, 36–7, 238
Van Erp, Sjef 2
verification and search costs 112, 184, 195–7, 199–200, 281
verification rules 195–6 virtual property 4 Vlatas, Anthony 137
336 Property law and economics
Wahl, Jenny 2 |
state ownership 57, 250 |
Wales 193, 198 |
wastewater 251 |
Wang, William 134 |
West Indies 205–6, 209, 211, 212–13, |
Warren, Elizabeth 281 |
214 |
waste, doctrine of 134–5 |
wetlands 250 |
water |
whaling 121, 154 |
allocation 61, 66, 68 |
White, James 280 |
common-pool resource, as 58–9 |
Williams, Eric 206–7 |
developing countries nationalizing |
Wiggins, Steven 69 |
resources 57 |
wild game, animals and wildlife 55 |
essential nature of 228 |
Federal wildlife preservation |
environmental goods, providing |
policies, failures in 254 |
225, 228–9 |
ownership and original assignment |
global issues, and 73 |
of 109, 114, 116, 118, 121, 141 |
harmful water projects 254 |
divided ownership, and 153–4 |
law 261 |
wildlife habitat, private provision of |
negative easement over 139 |
256, 259 |
not yet appropriated asset, as 107, |
William the Conqueror 6, 14–15, 35, |
109 |
204 |
not subject to private ownership |
Wilson, James 67 |
225 |
Winokur, James 142, 149, 150–51 |
oceans and seas see oceans |
Without Consent or Contract (Fogel) |
‘privatization’ 70–71 |
212 |
rights to water tied to land |
Wittman, Donald 172–3 |
ownership 115 |
Wright, Gavin 216 |
threat to cut off supply 285 |
Zanzibar 217 |
tradeable water pollution rights |
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248, 250 |
zoning 4, 138–9, 175–7 |