Zur Zustandsverantwortlichkeit des Eigentümers im Gefahrenabwehrrecht. Maßgeblichkeit des (formellen) zivilrechtlichen Eigentums im Polizeirecht?
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Zur Zustandsverantwortlichkeit des Eigentümers im Gefahrenabwehrrecht. Maßgeblichkeit des (formellen) zivilrechtlichen Eigentums im Polizeirecht?
Die Verwaltung, Vol. 43 (2010), Iss. 4 : pp. 521–544
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1Dr. David Hummel, Universität Leipzig, Lehrstuhl für Öffentliches Recht, insbesondere Steuerrecht und Öffentliches Wirtschaftsrecht (Prof. Dr. Marc Desens), Otto-Schill-Straße 2, 04109 Leipzig.
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In order to determine the addressee of police measures to safeguard security by averting danger, all German police laws differentiate between i)
According to the common definition of
However, this approach is debatable if the acquisition of an object's ownership does not involve the actual physical possession of the object. This can be seen particularly in the case of title acquisition, or where the object is used as a security, a bank credit, for example, where the legal ownership is transferred to the secured owner (the bank), and the physical possession remains with the original owner – the person providing the security – of the object.
According to the rules of civil law, the secured owner must be regarded as
Therefore, it is not the formal status as an owner according to civil law, but rather the comprehensive assignment of the actual possession of the object that should determine the owner's responsibility in the field of police law. That is to say, it is the substantive owner, and not the formal owner according to civil law, who should fall within the police's definition of ownership.