Construct · 2 fields · 2 citations

Where does title collide?

One name. Different field. Different construct. One map.

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title2 CONSTRUCTSTitle (ownership)BLACKSTONE · 1766Title (of a work)GENETTE · 1997

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Property law

The legal right of ownership and its proof

In property law, title is the legal right of ownership of a thing (the bundle of rights by which a person holds land or goods) and, by extension, the evidence of that right and the history of its transfers (the ‘chain of title’). Blackstone's Commentaries (Book II) analyses the several modes by which title to property is acquired and lost, a framework modern real-property law still follows. The referent is the standing of ownership and its proof, judged by whether a person's claim to a thing is good against others, and it is unrelated to the name printed at the head of a book.[1]

Unit
The validity and extent of a person's claim of ownership
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Tested by whether a claim of ownership is good against competing claims, traced through the chain of conveyances

Literature & bibliography

The name that identifies a work

In literature and bibliography, a title is the name given to a work: the verbal label by which a book, article, or artwork is identified, announced, and catalogued. Gérard Genette's Paratexts: Thresholds of interpretation treats the title as a ‘paratext,’ part of the threshold apparatus that frames a text and shapes how readers approach it, analysing its functions of designation, description, and enticement. The referent is the naming and framing of a work, studied for how it signals content and draws a reader in, and it collides only in spelling with a property owner's legal title.[2]

Unit
The name that identifies and frames a work
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Analysed by its designating, describing, and enticing functions as a paratext of the work

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References

  1. Blackstone, W. (1979). Commentaries on the laws of England: A facsimile of the first edition of 1765–1769: Vol. 2. Of the rights of things. University of Chicago Press. (Original work published 1766) ISBN 9780226055411
  2. Genette, G. (1997). Paratexts: Thresholds of interpretation (J. E. Lewin, Trans.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521424066

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