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The aim of the present diploma thesis entitled "The Legal Regulation of Expropriation" is to provide a coherent but not really comprehensive survey of the present legal regulation of the possibility of forced deprivation or limitation of property rights or the right corresponding to easement of land and structure. The thesis consists of nine chapters. Chapter One deals with the institute of property right as one of fundamental human rights, the existence of which is indispensable for the expropriation. Chapter Two is focused on the concept of expropriation: the definition of its basic elements, and its distinction from some other similar concepts. Chapter Three gives a brief survey of core legal regulations referring to the problem of expropriation. Further on, specific prerequisites for the expropriation are stated on the basis of the above regulations, beginning with the analysis of the object of expropriation (Chapter Four), through the statutory conditions as they are given in Chapter Five, to individual specific purposes of the expropriation (Chapter Six). In its final parts, the thesis focuses especially on the specifics of the expropriation procedural regulations (Chapter Seven). Chapter Eight is concerned with specific procedures. The conclusion brings in the conditions that may lead to the...

Les limitations du droit de propriété, notamment en matière immobilière, ne cessent de se multiplier par de nouvelles lois ou réglementations, voire même de nouvelles techniques contractuelles. Ce phénomène serait-il alors la preuve de la dégénérescence du droit de propriété tel qu’il a été élaboré en 1789 et 1804 ? En réalité, l’article 17 de la Déclaration de 1789 et l’article 544 du Code civil ont toujours prévu la possibilité de limiter le droit de propriété. De plus, il convient de constater que tout est une question d’équilibre entre le droit de propriété et ses limitations. Toutefois, il n’en demeure pas moins que les limitations transforment le droit de propriété. En effet, il s’adapte pour correspondre à des enjeux environnementaux ou urbanistiques, ou encore pour répondre des besoins économiques et sociaux. Notamment, l’instrumentalisation du droit de propriété crée de nouvelles formes d’appropriation : d’une part, les démembrements de ses utilités constituent des propriétés instrumentales, et d’autre part sa dématérialisation révèle des propriétés finalisées en employant la valeur du droit de propriété à des fins spécifiques. Cette adaptation ne signifie pas pour autant qu’aucune limitation ne porte atteinte au droit de propriété. Pour le protéger les juges contrôlent la légalité, la finalité et surtout la proportionnalité de la limitation en cause. De même, ils disposent d’un arsenal de sanctions. Même si ce contrôle semble réduit, les juges ont amélioré la qualification des limitations et ont reconnu la valeur fondamentale du droit de propriété. Une manière de repenser le droit de propriété par ses limitations paraît ainsi se dessiner. / The limitations of the property right, in particular out of real estate, do not cease multiplying by new laws or regulations, and even of contracts. Would this phenomenon be the proof of the degeneration of the property right such as it was elaborate in 1789 and 1804? Actually, article 17 of the Declaration of 1789 and article 544 of the Civil code always contained limitations. Furthermore, it is notable that all is a question of balance between the property right and its limitations. However, the limitations transform the property right. Indeed, it adapts to correspond to environmental or urban challenges, or to answer of the economic and social needs. In particular, the instrumentalisation of the property right creates new forms of appropriation : on the one hand, the dismemberments of its utilities constitute instrumental properties, and on the other hand its dematerialization reveals properties finalized by employing the value of the property right at specific ends. However, this adaptation does not mean that no limitation undermines the property right. To protect it the judges control the legality, the finality and especially the proportionality of the limitation in question. In the same way, they have an arsenal of sanctions. Even if this control seems reduced, the judges improved the qualification of the limitations, and they recognized the fundamental value of the property right. A manner of reconsidering the property right by its limitations thus appears to take shape.

Intellectual property rights (IPRs) are becoming increasingly important due to their inevitable link to technology and economic development. This highlighted role has resulted in the emergence and development of over-protections that are beyond the ideal scope of IPRs. As the scope of IPRs expands, competition concerns are also intensifying and, as a result, the interface between IP and competition law is expanding in new directions. To address these new developments, trans-Atlantic jurisdictions have developed new policies based on the general provisions of their competition laws. Canada’s current policy toward the IP/competition law interface is affected by the existence of a unique section in its Competition Act, section 32, which directly refers to the anti-competitive usage of IPRs. Despite section 32’s long presence in the Act and its role as a basis of the Competition Bureau’s analysis of the IP/competition law interface in Canada, this section has not been judicially considered to date. This thesis re-examines the role of section 32 and explores some of the reasons behind its current obsolescence. The main claim of this thesis is that the current interpretations of the role of section 32 are not as broad as envisaged in the statute. On the one hand, the Competition Bureau’s interpretation in the Intellectual Property Enforcement Guidelines (IPEGs) limits the scope of section 32 to the unilateral refusal to license IPRs. The approach that the Bureau has adopted toward the unilateral refusal to license is more in line with the American restrictive approach, which allows very limited scope for competition law interventions in the IP realm. From the author’s point of view, such a restrictive approach is not consistent with the underlying principles of Canadian competition policies. On the other hand, section 32 has not been amended since 1935. This has led to the generation of some procedural restrictions in the application of this section. The author claims that the procedural requirements of section 32 need to be amended in order to parallel the modernization of the Competition Act that has occurred over the last few decades. / Graduate

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Oregon State University, 2009. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Berkeley. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-278).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Davis, 1991. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 127-132).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2009. / Title from first page of PDF file (viewed September 17, 2009). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-241).

The restrictions of the ownership of real property for the purpose of nature and landscape protection Abstract This diploma thesis focuses on restrictions of the ownership of real property for the purpose of nature and landscape protection, which are regulated in Act No. 114/1992 Coll., On nature and landscape protection. The thesis is divided into two parts. The first part focuses on the general bases of the legal regulation of the restriction of the ownership of real property due to nature and landscape protection and contains four chapters. The first chapter defines essential legal institutes. The second chapter contains sources of regulation at international, European and national level. The third chapter discusses generally the conflict of property right with the right to a favourable environment. The fourth chapter deals with individual ways of limiting the property right. The second part discusses specific restrictions on the right to property and is also divided into four chapters. This is the fundamental part of this thesis. The first chapter of this part is devoted to the modification of the subject of property rights to protect nature and landscape. The second chapter deals with the modification of the property rights in terms of disposition limitation. The third chapter divides the individual...

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:24:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese Doutoral Getulio Targino Lima.pdf: 1640984 bytes, checksum: 8c934d939a76f446c8c86d036cca3843 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-05-29 / The aim of the present work is to demonstrate that the property right has suffered a serious crisis in its conceptual profile conformation, which has to be rebuilt due to the symptomatic changes occurred in the contemporary law, referred to its subjective right nature, to the absence of property character in its focus and to the intersubjectivity of the juridical relation that it is constituted by, to the new possession role derived from it, all due to the application of the social function principle. The methodological procedure determined a general survey of the institute, in time and space, from the ancient times to the contemporaneity. Next, a view about the property conceptual crises, according to the Code texts, the matter of the juridical appearance and substance of the property and the conflict between the individual nature and the social function of the property. After that, the social function of the property, its conceptual idea, the social function of the possessions and the role of the property right, the view of the principle in the foreign law and, finally, the institute in the Brazilian civil Codes: the previous and the current ones. Pursuing the aim of the thesis, the following chapter deals with the construction of the new property right, to which were analyzed the following topics: the right to the property and the right of property, the property as an active and passive intersubjective relation, a matter of property statutes, to define or not the appearance of many properties and a final draw of a new profile of this right. Next, the possession was treated, mainly the one derived from the property, to define the real role to be performed in the new property, going from a mere projection or external image of control to essential instrument for the fulfillment of its social function and, consequently, legitimacy element of constituent title of this right. In the last chapter, the treatment of the property in the constitutional plan, specially focusing the study of the human being and the principle of preserving the dignity, which is concluded to be the main fundamental and justificative of the functional, intersubjective and supportive property, which travels from the mere individualism to its function / O objetivo do presente trabalho é demonstrar que o direito de propriedade sofreu e ainda sofre uma crise séria, na conformação de seu perfil conceitual, que deve ser reconstruído, ante as sintomáticas mudanças ocorridas no direito contemporâneo, referentes à sua natureza de direito subjetivo, à despatrimonialização de seu enfoque e à intersubjetividade da relação jurídica que o constitui, e ao novo papel da posse dela derivada, tudo em decorrência da aplicação do princípio da função social. O procedimento metodológico determinou um levantamento geral do instituto, no tempo e no espaço, da antiguidade à contemporaneidade. A seguir, uma vista sobre as crises conceituais da propriedade, em face dos textos do Código, a questão da aparência e da substância jurídica da propriedade e o conflito entre a natureza individual e a função social da propriedade. Em seguida, a função social da propriedade, sua idéia conceitual, a função social dos bens e o papel do direito de propriedade, a visão do princípio no direito estrangeiro, e, finalmente, o instituto nos Códigos Civis brasileiros: o anterior e o vigente. Perseguindo o objetivo da tese, o capítulo seguinte trata da construção do novo direito de propriedade, para o que foram analisados os temas: direito à propriedade e direito de propriedade, a propriedade como relação intersubjetiva ativa e passiva, a questão dos estatutos proprietários, a definirem ou não o surgimento de várias propriedades e um traçado final de um novo perfil deste direito. Cuidou-se, em seguida, da posse, mormente a derivada da propriedade, para lhe definir o real papel a ser desempenhado na nova propriedade, passando de mera projeção ou imagem externa do domínio a instrumento essencial para o cumprimento da função social da mesma e, conseqüentemente, elemento de legitimação do título constitutivo deste direito. No último capítulo, buscou-se o tratamento da propriedade no plano constitucional, com especial relevo ao estudo da pessoa humana, e ao princípio do resguardo de sua dignidade, concluindo-se ser ele o principal fundamento e justificativa da propriedade funcionalizada, intersubjetiva e solidária, que se transporta do mero individualismo ao valor de sua função