| Vestitive Facts | Investitive Facts or Titles. | Original Titles. | Creation of Rights. |
| Derivative Titles. } | Transfer of Rights. |
| Divestitive Facts. | Alienative Facts. } |
| Extinctive Facts. | Destruction of Rights. |
| Vestitive Facts | Acts of the law. |
| Acts in the law. | Unilateral. |
| Bilateral, or Agreements. |
| Agreements. | 1. Contracts—creating rights in personam. |
| 2. Grants—creating rights of other descriptions. |
| 3. Assignments—transferring rights. |
| 4. Releases—extinguishing rights. |
| Grounds of the operation of agreements. |
| Comparison of agreement and legislation |
| Agreements. | Valid. |
| Invalid. | Void. |
| Voidable. |
| The causes of invalidity. |
| 1. Incapacity. |
| 2. Informality. |
| 3. Illegality. |
| 4. Error. |
| 5. Coercion. |
| 6. Want of consideration. |