David R. Koepsell Ontology design pattern for Hohfeld's correlative legal positions (claim and duty, liberty and no-claim, power and liability, immunity and disability), grounded in legal content from LOF-ODP-001. This file encodes Option A, which places legal positions under specifically dependent continuant. Option B, placing them under generically dependent continuant, is maintained in parallel for decision by the founding coordinators. DRAFT. LOF-ODP-003: Correlative Deontic Positions 0.1.0 In Option A this is a functional subproperty of BFO 'inheres in', reflecting BFO's axiom that a specifically dependent continuant has exactly one bearer. A position can therefore never have two holders, even at different times. held by A relation between a legal position and the person or organization whose position it is. grounded in A relation between a legal position and the legal content in virtue of which it exists, such as the contract term creating a duty to pay. correlative of A symmetric relation between two legal positions held by different parties, each of which exists if and only if the other does, such as a claim and the duty owed in satisfaction of it. exercised in A relation between a power and a legal act through which the holder of the power changes the legal positions of another party. BFO placement, OPTION A (LOF-P-004): a legal position is a specifically dependent continuant inhering in its holder, as a role or disposition does. It exists only as long as its holder exists and cannot migrate from one holder to another, so assignment of a claim is modeled as the termination of one position and the creation of a new one in the assignee. OPEN QUESTION for the founding coordinators; see Option B. legal position Hohfeldian position A continuant that is held by a person or organization in virtue of some legal content, and that consists in what the holder is legally required, permitted, or enabled to do, or protected from having done to them, in relation to some other party. claim right A first-order legal position in virtue of which its holder is owed some conduct by another party. duty A first-order legal position in virtue of which its holder is required to engage in, or refrain from, some conduct owed to another party. liberty privilege A first-order legal position in virtue of which its holder is not under a duty to another party to refrain from some conduct. no-claim no-right A first-order legal position in virtue of which its holder has no claim against another party with respect to some conduct of that party. power A second-order legal position in virtue of which its holder can, by some legal act, change the legal positions of another party. liability A second-order legal position in virtue of which its holder's legal positions can be changed by some legal act of another party. immunity A second-order legal position in virtue of which its holder's legal positions cannot be changed by some legal act of another party. disability A second-order legal position in virtue of which its holder cannot, by some legal act, change the legal positions of another party. first-order legal position A legal position that concerns what its holder or another party is required or permitted to do. second-order legal position A legal position that concerns whether its holder or another party can change first-order or second-order legal positions.