Hohfeld’s second quartet of positions are mere reflections of another’s position.

Evidence

This second quartet of legal positions all have in common an aspect which Hohfeld and his followers seem strangely to have neglected. None of the positions is one which people have as a result of a direction addressed to them in compliance with which they are expected to act or reFain from acting. Each is a position which people have as a result of a direction addressed to someone else. Each, in other words, is a mere expectation that someone else will or will no o w a he has been nthoritatively told that he must may, or can do or not do. — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process, 2604

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Distinguishes Hohfeld’s correlative positions (right/no-right, liability/immunity) as reflections of actor-directed positions.
  • XREF: connects to: Analyzing law is best done through actor positions, not their reflections. — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 2618