Elements of Morals / With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State

by Paul Janet

CHAPTER IV.

DUTIES CONCERNING THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS.

SUMMARY.

Of property.—Its fundamental principle; work sanctioned by law. Communistic Utopia.—Inequality of wealth: it is founded on nature, but should not be aggravated by the law.—Different forms of the rights of property: loans, trusts, things lost, sales, property properly so called.

Loan.—Is it a duty to loan?—The interest of money.—The question of usury.—Duties of creditor and debtor.—Failures and bankruptcies.—The commodate or things loaned for use.

Trust.—Duties of the depositary and the deponent.

Of the possession in good faith.—The thing lost.

Sales.—Obligations of seller and buyer.

Of property in general.—Violation of property or theft.—The elements which constitute theft.—Simple thefts and qualified thefts.—Abuse of confidence, swindling.—Restitution.