THE ENGLISHWOMAN'S CASTLE-INHERITANCE AND PRIVATE PROPERTY TODAY

The Evolution of Private Property

Experimental studies have shown that subjects exhibit a systematic endowment effect. No acceptable explanation for the existence of this behavior has been offered. This paper shows that the endowment effect can be modeled as respect for private property in the absence of legal institutions ensuring third-party contract enforcement. In this sense, “natural” private property has been observed in ...

Private Property and Public Interest

Specification and (property) inheritance in CSP-OZ

CSP-OZ [C. Fischer, CSP-OZ: A combination of Object-Z and CSP, in: H. Bowman, J. Derrick (Eds.), Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems, FMOODS’97, vol. 2, Chapman & Hall, 1997, pp. 423–438] is a combination of Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) and Object-Z (OZ). It enables the specification of systems having both a state-based and a behaviouroriented view using the obj...

The Constitutional Protection of Private Property

Ruthin Castle: a private hospital for the investigation and treatment of obscure medical diseases (1923-1950).

A LESSER-KNOWN development in medicine in Great Britain was the opening in 1923 of Ruthin Castle, North Wales, the first private hospital for the investigation and treatment of obscure internal diseases. Apart from the inevitable publicity it evoked, and although the clinic acquired a wide reputation, it remained unadvertised except for a regular notice in the Quarterly Journal of Medicine. Thi...