A. Non-Malicious Wrong

Taking possession (§ 54) and contract, taken by themselves and according to their particular kinds — at first merely different manifestations and consequences of my will in general — are, since the will is the universal within itself, in relation to the recognition of others, grounds of right. It lies in their externality toward one another, and in their manifold character, that they can, in relation to one and the same thing, belong to different persons, each of whom, from his own particular ground of right, regards the thing as his property — whereby collisions of right arise.¹

1. In the Handexemplar corrected to read: “In the manifold character and the externality of these grounds toward one another.” ↩︎