Jural Relations Theory
- Theory
- Jural Relations Theory
- Jurist
- Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld
- Description
Legal relations reduce to eight fundamental conceptions arranged as jural correlatives — right–duty, privilege (liberty)–no-right, power–liability, immunity–disability — and as jural opposites. Hohfeld argued that the word 'right' is used loosely and must be disaggregated into these precise terms for rigorous legal reasoning.