Basic Concepts- Interests

Question 1

Correlative Interests

Answer 1

Right : Duty

Privilege : Absence of Right

Power : Liability

Immunities : Disabilities

Question 2

Right : Duty

Answer 2

Right- an ability to enforce a legal claim that another person do/not do a given act

Duty- a legally enforceable obligation to do/not do some act

Question 3

Pirvilege : Absence of Right

Answer 3

Privilege- a legal freedom to do or not do a given act

Absence of right- an absence of a legally enforceable claim that the other person shall do/not do a certain act.

Question 4

Power : Liability

Answer 4

Power- an ability to produce a change in a given legal relation by acting or not acting

Liability- being subject to having a given legal relation changed by another person’s acting or not acting

Question 5

Immunities : Disabilities

Answer 5

Immunity- having freedom from having another person’s act or omission change a given legal relation.

Disability- no ability to alter a given legal relation by acting or not acting

Question 6

Common Law Person Property Actions

Answer 6

• Trover- common law action at law for conversion to recover the value of chattel in money damages
  
  • Conversion of a chattel owned or possessed by the P
  • P waives his right for a return of the chattel
  • Insists that D be forced to purchase the chattel
• Replevin- action in equity to have the converted item returned to P

Question 7

Common Law Real Property Actions

Answer 7

• Action for damages (trespass)- similar to trover, but for real property
• Action for possession (ejectment)- similar to replevin, but for real property