Here, again, as under the first two titles, it is clear that there
is a personal right of a real kind, in the relation of the master of a
house to his domestics. For he can legally demand them as belonging to
what is externally his, from any other possessor of them; and he is
entitled to fetch them back to his house, even before the reasons that
may have led them to run away, and their particular right in the
circumstances, have been juridically investigated.
SYSTEMATIC DIVISION OF ALL THE RIGHTS CAPABLE OF
BEING ACQUIRED BY CONTRACT.
31. Division of Contracts Juridical Conceptions
of Money and a Book.
It is reasonable to demand that a metaphysical science of right
shall completely and definitely determine the members of a logical
division of its conceptions a priori, and thus establish them in a
genuine system. All empirical division, on the other hand, is merely
fragmentary partition, and it leaves us in uncertainty as to whether
there may not be more members still required to complete the whole
sphere of the divided conception. A division that is made according to
a principle a priori may be called, in contrast to all empirical
partitions, a dogmatic division.
Every contract, regarded in itself objectively, consists of two
juridical acts: the promise and its acceptance.
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