Natural and legal rights

As an inalienable right, and inalienable rights, in law those rights are referred to, which can not be transferred by contract or other expression of will to others. A contract for the sale of such a right is therefore a priori (ie ex tunc ) ineffective.

Inalienable goods can both be already protected by the law if their sale is prohibited by law in the formal sense. On the other hand, an inalienable good but his inalienable also simply by virtue of nature of things. These principles have been developed primarily by the courts and fall in contracts and other declarations of intent by the prohibition of immorality.

The Declaration of Independence of the United States states: " ... that all men ... are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. " This meaning of inalienable rights as a translation of unalienable rights is not congruent with the one adopted in the German-speaking term significance.

Examples

Under the inalienable goods primarily consist of personal freedom, the right to life and physical integrity, kinship relationships and any citizen and human rights.

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