Legal Objects

Question 1

What is the connection between Subjective Rights and Legal Objects

Answer 1

• all legal subjects must have their rights protected through subjective rights .
• the law categorizes 4 types of subjective rights which are linked to legal objects.
• they include, real rights, personal rights, personality rights and intellectual rights.

Question 2

1. Legal Objects

Answer 2

• A legal subject must have a right to something.
• real right to things, personal rights to performance, personality rights to personality and intellectual rights to intellectual property.

Question 3

1.1 Real Rights

Answer 3

• a right that a legal subject has in respect to legal tangible objects.
• a ‘Thing’ is any corporeal object with sentimental and/or monetary value.
• Real rights are absolute rights

Question 4

1.2 Personal Rights

Answer 4

• a right a legal subject has with respect to the demand performance from another legal subject.
• the obligation has to do with contract and delict
• Personal Rights are Relative rights

Question 5

1.3 Personality Rights

Answer 5

• a right that one legal subject has with respect to aspects of their personality (Physical/Mental Health)
• this includes privacy, ownership of ones body, demand to not be assaulted and demand to not have their reputation harmed.
• these rights are absolute.

Question 6

1.4 Intellectual Property Rights

Answer 6

• A right that a legal subject has with respect to their intellectual property , the product/ invention from ones mind.
• they are protected through Copyrights ( ideas in a book ), Trademark ( The logo of a business ) and a Patent ( idea/invention )
• these rights are absolute rights