Comments on: 50 https://grundlinien.de/en/50/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:37:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: Hegel (Simple) https://grundlinien.de/en/50/#comment-3490 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:37:16 +0000 https://grundlinien.de/?p=4691#comment-3490 § 50: Whoever comes first

Someone takes possession of a thing. Then a second person comes. Can he take it too?

No. The thing already belongs to the first. That goes without saying.

But why does it belong to him?

Not because he was there earlier. He placed his will into the thing. That makes him the owner. He only becomes the “first” because a second one comes. The order in time is only an outer result of this.

Summary: The thing belongs to whoever took possession of it. The reason is his free will, not the time on the clock.

]]> By: Eduard Gans (Additions) https://grundlinien.de/en/50/#comment-1989 Wed, 29 May 1833 13:10:38 +0000 https://grundlinien.de/?p=4691#comment-1989 The determinations so far have chiefly concerned the proposition that personality must have existence in property. That the first taker of possession is also the owner follows from what has been said. The first is not the rightful owner because he is the first, but because he is free will, for it is only through another coming after him that he becomes the first.

]]> By: Hegel (Notes) https://grundlinien.de/en/50/#comment-1988 Thu, 21 Nov 1822 08:10:32 +0000 https://grundlinien.de/?p=4691#comment-1988 Difference of time – Not because he is the first, but because he has taken it into possession – If another comes, this one is indeed a second and that one a first – external determinations – that one is the owner

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