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Real rights / Carl Wellman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wellman, Carl, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law and ethics.
- Law--Philosophy.
- Law.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Providing a fresh theory of grounds for legal and moral rights, this treatise argues that only agents can be right-holders, that children and the mentally incapacitated have only limited rights, and that foetuses, the dead, and groups can have none.
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction; 1. Grounds of Institutional Rights; 2. Grounds of Moral Positions; 3. Grounds of Moral Rights; 4. Possible Right-Holders; 5. Alleged Right-Holders; 6. Implied Duties; 7. Conflicts of Rights; 8. Real Rights and Duties; Notes; References; Index
- Notes:
- Bibliography: p272-274. - Includes index.
- Previously issued in print: 1995.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-274) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-773144-9
- 1-280-52792-7
- 0-19-535738-8
- 1-4294-0602-X
- OCLC:
- 630529061
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