It is
not easy to see how such an act of free-will as this would be could
really form a foundation for every one having his own. However, the
first acquisition of a thing is on that account not quite exactly
the same as the original acquisition of it. For the acquisition of a
public juridical state by union of the wills of all in a universal
legislation would be such an original acquisition, seeing that no
other of the kind could precede it, and yet it would be derived from
the particular wills of all the individuals, and consequently become
all-sided or omnilateral; for a properly primary acquisition can
only proceed from an individual or unilateral or unilateral will.
DIVISION OF THE SUBJECT OF THE ACQUISITION OF THE EXTERNAL
MINE AND THINE.
I. In respect of the matter of object of acquisition, I acquire
either a corporeal thing (substance), or the performance of
something by another (causality), or this other as a person in respect
of his state, so far as I have a right to dispose of the same (in a
relation of reciprocity with him).
II. In respect of the form or mode of acquisition, it is either a
real right (jus reale), or a personal right (jus personale), or a
real-personal right (jus realiter personale), to the possession
although not to the use, of another person as if he were a thing.
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