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 Rh 112 THE LAW OF PROPERTY specific and limited, mine is imlimited and residuary.'- I therefore am owner, you not. The same applies if you have the usufruct of property, the residuary rights over which are vested in me, or even if you have an inheritable right of the kind termed emphyteusis.^ In all these cases the dominion remains in me, but in the two last, being reduced to a mere shadow, at all events for the time, it is merely bare ownership {nvda proprietas), i.e. ownership stripped of its most valuable incidents. All the above- mentioned rights, it must be noted, whether greater or less, are rights of property, and as such protected by appropriate remedies against all the world (jura in rem) ; but while the residuary right, however reduced, is a right of ownership (dominium — jus in re propria), the specific rights, however extended, are rights inferior to ownership (jura in re aliena). In the following chapters we shall ask : Topics of 1. How things are classified in law (chap. ii). of Pro-^^ 2. How the ownership of things is acquired (chap. iii). perty ' 3. What ownership means and what an owner may and may not do with his own (chap. iv). . What is the nature and scope of the various rights connected with and derived from ownership under the names of Possession (chap, v). Servitude (chap, vi), and Hypothec (chap. vii). CHAPTER II CLASSIFICATION OF THINGS How When we speak of the classification of things, we mean 'Things' ^jjgj], classification according to the legal system which eed. we are examining. In the Roman-Dutch system things are classified first, according to their relation to persons, i.e. in regard to the question whether they are or are not Gr. 2. 33. 5.  Gr. 2. 33. 1 ; Dig. 6. 3. 1. : Qui in perpetuum f nudum fmendum conduxerunt a munioipibus, quamvis non efficiantur domini, &c.