Conclusion. Part III. Movable property -- Property law around the world : an empirical overview -- Economic framework -- Limited number of limited property rights : less is more -- Transfer of ownership : transaction cost versus information cost -- Part II. Immovable property -- Acquisitive prescription : hardly justified in modern, developed countries -- Building encroachment : in search of an efficiency justification -- Co-ownership partition : proposing a new auction-based design -- Managing co-ownership : tragedy of the common-ownership? -- Access to landlocked land : hybrid entitlement protection -- Part III. Movable property -- Good-faith purchase : proposing fractional ownership and internal auction -- Finders, keepers : a minority rule -- Specificatio : do what the Romans did -- Accessio and confusio : no sign of convergence -- Conclusion.
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