The renunciation of real estate ownership beyond “subjective rights” and “legal persons”: points for reflection in light of Rome’s legal experience.

Journal title DE IUSTITIA ET IURE
Author/s Antonio Angelosanto
Publishing Year 2025 Issue 2025/1
Language Italian Pages 26 P. 87-112 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/ius2025oa20311
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Looking at the extensive debate that has developed in recent years on the subject of abdicative renunciation of property rights, it is possible to discern the deep roots of the “serious interpretative difficulties” of the issue under consideration by the Court of Cassation. The author proposes to accompany this debate with the one fuelled by Bernhard Windscheid in the mid-19th century on the classification of unclaimed inheritance as “rights without a subject”. There is, in fact, a common denominator linking the debate on unclaimed inheritance to the current debate on the fate of vacant properties: the use of the same legal categories of pandectic origin, “subjective right” and “legal person”. It is in the irreducible alternative between these two horns that the current debate on the renunciation of real estate ownership is wedged, whose protagonists do not seem fully aware of the historical and legal roots of this dilemma.

Keywords: ; Renunciation of real estate ownership; rights without a subject; res corporalis; derelictio; abandonment of servient and dominant funds; dolo desinere possessionem

Antonio Angelosanto, La rinuncia alla proprietà immobiliare al di là dei «diritti soggettivi» e delle «persone giuridiche»: spunti di riflessione in margine all’esperienza giuridica di Roma in "DE IUSTITIA ET IURE" 1/2025, pp 87-112, DOI: 10.3280/ius2025oa20311