 Some claim-rights exist independently of voluntary actions like signing a contract; and some claim-rights correspond to duties in more than one agent. For example, a child’s claim-right against abuse exists independently of anyone’s actions, and the child’s claim-right correlates to a duty in every other person not to abuse him (in legal terms, the claim right is in rem). This example of the child’s right also illustrates how some claim-rights can require duty-bearers to refrain from performing some action (i.e., that “phi” can be a negative verb such as “not abuse him”). Bodily rights and property rights are paradigmatic rights with claim-rights at their core.