The Element of Ownership

In societies that recognize the rights of ownership, there is language to describe its various legal aspects.  For instance, abandon and shipment contract both relate to ownership: abandon denotes a process by which ownership of property is relinquished; shipment contract denotes at what point ownership of goods is transferred.

About the Legal Elements

With legal terminology it’s important to understand both the what and the why.  That is, you need to know both what the term means and why it’s important in the eyes of the law.  Without understanding the why, you can miss the point even with a perfectly good definition in mind.  That’s why Clear-Point Law has created a proprietary system for indexing legal terminology. We call it The Legal Elements.

The legal elements provide non-lawyers with a context for legal terms. These elements represent the key concepts of legal thinking and provide the answer to the question, why is this important. It doesn’t matter if the issue is criminality or contracts. For a description of all 12 Legal Elements, see our Overview of the Legal Elements.