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the introduction of property rights for individuals; the limitations placed on the property rights of individuals through the Constitution, legislation and caselaw; the findings from different government commissioned reports and committees regarding the necessity to delimit the right to private property in favour of the common good; and
The text of the Irish Constitution refers to property rights twice; the first reference being in Article 40.3.2 ° where, under the heading of 'Personal Rights', it is stated that the State shall protect, as best it may, the property rights of every citizen from unjust attack.
Abstract. This chapter focuses on the contested question of the ‘actual nature’ of property law, taking as its focus case law bearing on the definition of property rights. It employs a Hohfeldian analysis both to argue against the bundle of rights perspective and to support a requirement that a property right must relate to a physical thing.
This Thesis analyses the protection of private property rights in the Irish Constitution both critically and constructively. Critically, it examines the results driven nature of Irish constitutional property doctrine through detailed analysis of case-law. Constructively, it extracts the judicial preferences concerning property that are latent ...
provision in the Constitution which protects the individual's rights. to the property which he does own. By it the State guarantees to. respect this right and by its laws, as far as practicable, to defend it and as best it may to protect it from unjust attack, and where injus- tice has been done to vindicate it.
Constitutional principles are the values which underlie constitutional (or ‘liberal’) democracy. These principles provide a framework within which politics is properly conducted. There exists no single definitive list of constitutional principles, but their fundamental content is widely agreed. These can be grouped as follows: institutional ...
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The fundamental rights of citizens enjoy only the protection of the common law, and are therefore vulnerable to statutory encroachment at the hands of a simple parliamentary majority. In addition, the common law concept of liberty is only residual, it is usually alleged: freedom is what remains after statutory and common law restrictions have been taken into account.
