The analysis of object of right cannot be separated from the theory of right composition. Right is composed of inherent essentials and external ones. Inherent essentials consist of inherent formal and substantive essentials. The former are legal qualifications which are the outside clothes of right and the latter refer to the free will of subject of right which is the core of right. Right without legal qualifications is naked right, and right without free will is empty right. The analysis of the inherent essentials of right equals to the analysis of the right itself. External essentials of right consist of the subject and object that right relates to. The analysis of the external essentials of right is not the analysis of the right itself, but through this study we can achieve the goal of elaborate classification of rights. Object of right which particularly manifest the legal benefit of subject gives an explanation of right’s foundations, so it is the cross-point of free will and benefit of subject of right. The concretion of benefit is the specific classification of object of right. Right is the external existence of subject’s free will, and object is the external existence of right. Object of right should be analyzed according to different levels of rights. The first level of object of right includes physical object and ideal object. Right in the second level is the result of the running of right in the first level, and object of right in the second level is right in the first level principally, yet there are exceptions for new types of rights which are created by right in the second level. Right in the third level is the result of the running of right in the second level, and object of right in the third level is right in the second level principally, and so forth. Object of right is the base of establishing right, and subject-matter of right is the target to exercise right. For the classification of rights in the first level, there is no significance to distinguish object of right and subject-matter of right, as they are just coincident. But distinguishing them is very important for the classification of rights in the second level and beyond, especially for the classification of contractual obligatory rights. |