ABSTRACT
An individual human being can own property as can a legal entity such as a corporation. It has sometimes been argued that the civilian concept of ownership involves the right of a person to use, abuse and take die fruits of his property - ius utendi abutendi fruendi. According to the traditional mode of analysis in Roman law, private law was divided into three departments: the law of persons, the law of things and the law of actions. Modern civil law systems recognize that the law of things can be divided into two compartments: the law of property, concerned with owning, and the law of obligations, which is concerned with owing. The question of who may be the subject of property rights in the sense of who can own property is basically a question for the law of persons. Any person, natural or juristic, is capable of being an owner.
