PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Jesse Wall
TI  - The trespasses of property law
AID  - 10.1136/medethics-2013-101439
DP  - 2014 Jan 01
TA  - Journal of Medical Ethics
PG  - 19--22
VI  - 40
IP  - 1
4099  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/40/1/19.short
4100  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/40/1/19.full
SO  - J Med Ethics2014 Jan 01; 40
AB  - The purpose of this article is to identify a limit to the appropriate application of property law to the use and storage of bodily material. I argue here that property law ought to be limited to protecting ‘contingent rights’ and that recent cases where property rights have been recognised in semen represent the application of property law beyond this limit. I also suggest how the law ought to develop in order to avoid the overextensive use of property law.