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Abstraction principle (law)

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The abstract system of title transfer, in German the Abstraktionsprinzip, is a legal term in German law relating to the law of obligations (Schuldrecht) and property law (Sachenrecht). No express reference to it is made in the German Civil Code (BGB), yet the concept is fundamental to German private law. It separates a personal undertaking to pay or exchange goods or legal rights, for example through a contract, from the conveyance of title to those goods or legal rights, for example through a deed or land registration. The same concept is also fundamental to Brazilian law, Greek law, South African law and Scots law.

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Entity-backed identity for the doctrine category value this doctrine already carries as an enum fact, resolved to a doctrine entity by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The enum fact itself stays on the entity unchanged.

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1. Wikipedia: Abstraction principle (law)
the abstract system of title transfer... separating a personal undertaking to pay or exchange goods from the conveyance of title to those goodsView the Source
Abstraction principle (law) (Wikipedia)
  • In Group: Ius in Re, lead paragraph defines the civil law property doctrine
  • In Legal System: German Legal System, Wikipedia lead paragraph
    The abstract system of title transfer (German: Abstraktionsprinzip) is a legal term in German l
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