Concepción estatutaria y propiedad inmobiliaria. O la crónica de la desvalorización anunciada del derecho fundamental a la propiedad privada

Abstract

The methodology used for the Constitutional Court to determine the essential content of the property right is responsible for the relativization of that content based on the social function of property, overcoming the formal premises about the recognition of the right. This conclusion is due to the absence of a systematic interpretation of articles 33 and 53.1 both of the Spanish Constitution. Thus, the constitutional jurisprudence, although maintains an apparent equivalence between the subjective aspects and the objective aspects of the property right, finally the Court delivers the fundamental weight of the substance of the right to the second aspect: the essential content of the right yields to the subsequent Laws. This article proposes a reinterpretation of the essential content of property right, considering a flexible structure and allowing the recognition of common contents but variable depending on the object of ownership. Notwithstanding, in all cases that content has to integrate subjective powers to ensure a real and actual profitability. Translating this conclusion to the immovable property, it has a fundamental consequence: every owner has an urban use of his property, but not every owner will exercise these powers in the same way.