In his harsh criticism of the notion of subjective right (SR), Michel Villey argued that (A) the SR did not exist in Roman law, but that (B) emerged at the dawn of Western modernity as the main legal consequence of nominalism that William de Ockham introduced in philosophy and theology. And, furthermore, that (C) in Ockham it would be possible to already find a legal theory in which the SR appears as the main meaning of the law. Each of these historical theses has been strongly discussed and almost all have been overcome. However, this article attempts to show that, beyond his historical inaccuracies, Villey was right in the central philosophical core of his thesis: the necessary association between nominalism and the notion of SR that has been imposed on legal modernity Although the discussion about the history of this concept is lengthy and exceeds the scope and intention of these pages, it is necessary to acknowledge that the author who most stimulated this discussion during the 20th century was Michel Villey. The core of the thesis defended by Villey consisted of the assertions that (a) subjective rights did not exist in Roman law,6 and that, instead, (b) they emerged at the dawn of Western modernity as the main legal consequence of the nominalism introduced into philosophy and theology, definitively, by William of Ockham.7 Furthermore, Villey maintains that (c) a legal theory can already be found in Ockham's work.

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Aunque la discusión sobre la historia de esta noción es larga y excede las po-sibilidades e intención de estas páginas, es menester reconocer que el autor quemás animó esta discusión durante el pasado siglo XX fue Michel Villey. Y el nú-cleo de la tesis defendida por Villey consistía en las armaciones de que, (a) elderecho subjetivo no existía en el Derecho Romano6y que, en cambio, (b) surgeen los albores de la modernidad occidental como la principal consecuencia jurí-dica del nominalismo que introduce en la losofía y la teología, denitivamente,Guillermo de Ockham7. Es más, sostiene Villey que (c) ya en Ockham es posi-ble encontrar una teoría jurídica