BIBLIOGRAPHY
Wolfgang Friedmann, Law in a Changing Society
(London, 1959; 2nd ed. 1972), Chs. 3, 4, 8, 9 survey concepts,
functions, and changes of property law in the context of
the evolution of contemporary industrial society. Vinding
Kruse, The Right of Property, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1939; 1953),
deals with both the broader and the technical aspects of
the right of property, its origins and limits, its functions
in production and circulation, and the various forms of
transfer. Much of it is based on the pioneer Danish Real
Property Act of 1926. F. H. Lawson, Introduction to the
Law of Property (Oxford, 1958), gives a concise survey of
the various legal aspects of property predominantly against
an English background. Franco Negro, Das Eigentum
(Munich and Berlin, 1963), gives a more recent but much
more compressed survey of the legal and social function
of property in history, and for the future. C. R. Noyes, The
Institution of Property (London, 1936), gives an historical
and analytical survey of property, both in its economic and
legal aspects, with particular emphasis on the Roman and
English systems of property and the substance and structure
of modern property. Karl Renner, The Institutions of Private
Law and Their Social Functions (1905; London, 1949), is
a sociological analysis of changes in the function of property,
from a Marxist point of view. The fifty-page introduction
by O. Kahn-Freund to the English edition puts this classical
study into a comparative and contemporary perspective.
Richard Schlatter, Private Property, The History of an Idea
(New York, 1951), is a special study. Transactions of the
Third World Congress of Sociology, edited by the Interna-
tional Sociological Association (Amsterdam, 1956), has a
major part devoted to changes in property relationships,
with contributions from American, Dutch, German, and
Soviet authors.
WOLFGANG G. FRIEDMANN
[See also
Class; Economic History;
Equality; Ideology; In-
dividualism; Law, Ancient Roman, Natural; Marxism;
So-
cialism; State; Utopia.]
