Chicago-Kent Law Review Volume 71 Issue 1 Symposium on Ancient Law, Economics and Society Part II: Ancient Rights and Wrongs / Article 10 Symposium on Ancient Law, Economics and Society Part II: Ancient Near Eastern Land Laws October 1995 Demotic Egyptian Instruments of Transfer as Evidence for Private Ownership of Real Property J.G. Manning Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/cklawreview Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation J.G. Manning, Demotic Egyptian Instruments of Transfer as Evidence for Private Ownership of Real Property, 71 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 237 (1995). Available at: https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/cklawreview/vol71/iss1/10 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarly Commons @ IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in Chicago-Kent Law Review by an authorized editor of Scholarly Commons @ IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. DEMOTIC EGYPTIAN INSTRUMENTS OF TRANSFER AS EVIDENCE FOR PRIVATE OWNERSHIP OF REAL PROPERTY* J.G. MANNING** "The Ptolemaic law of things is dominated by the distinction between possession and ownership. This distinction has found expression in the terminology: KupiEia -dt Kp6TIraiq denoting, in this connection, possession and ownership. The corresponding terms are KupiE6Etv Kai Kparrdv. Sometimes, however, they are used interchangeably .... Raphael Taubenschlag, The Law of Greco- Roman Egypt in the Light of the Papyri, p. 173. r-Iny jd r ms.t hwy r sh.t "Borrow money at interest, invest it in land." A demotic wisdom text (P.