# kaal:claim:5886342-024

**Claim.** Where a Digital Transfer of Rights Object represents an underlying physical object, transferring the DTRO substitutes for the transfer of physical control, so possession of the thing no longer has to change hands for ownership to pass.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** asserted

**Holds when.**

- the DTRO terms link the property rights in the underlying physical object to the DTRO
- the identity of the DTRO is reliably linked to the identity of the physical object

**Source quote.**

> shall substitute the transfer of the physical control

**From.** Furrer Andreas, Wulf A. Kaal, Stephan D. Meyer, *Universal Digital Law Codex (UDLC)* (2025), Part B, Book II, Section 3, Chapter 4, Article 40 Rights in Rem, page 11

**Cite as.** Furrer Andreas, Wulf A. Kaal, Stephan D. Meyer, Universal Digital Law Codex (UDLC) (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5886342

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**Topics.** tokenomics

**Keywords.** dtro, possession, rights-in-rem, tokenization, physical-assets

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