 | John Tillotson - 1880 - 392 pages
...long in bitterness. — Sterne. CCCLXVII. IIGHT OF PROPERTY. — There is nothing which so generously strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property ; of that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of... | |
 | Timothy Walker - 1882 - 850 pages
...incorporeal hereditament*. By the right of property, I understand, in the language of Blackstone, " that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...external things of the world, in total exclusion of every other individual." (a) This is the definition of exclusive ownership, and it has been a question... | |
 | American Bar Association - 1883 - 1094 pages
...Justinian, there is no definition of the right of property or dominion, while Blackstone describes it to be "that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...the right of any other individual in the universe." (Vol. i., p. 2.) This smacks so strongly of Pothier, that one is tempted to suspect the source whence... | |
 | 1883 - 908 pages
...control or diminution, save only by the laws of the land." 1 Bl. Com. 133. Again, he defines it as " that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...the right of any other individual in the universe :" Book II., p. 2. Again on page 15 of Book II., lie says that " the objects of dominion or property... | |
 | Joseph Henry Dart, Thomas Whitney Waterman - 1883 - 974 pages
...of the history of civil society." "There is nothing," says Blackstone, (2 Black. Com. 2.) " whicli so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of propeity ; or, that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - 1887 - 760 pages
...by the laws of the land," and in another place, book 2, page 2, speaks of the right of property as " that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...the right of any other individual in the universe." Bouvier, in his Law Dictionary, in defining the word property, says : " It is the right to enjoy and... | |
 | 1888 - 958 pages
...Anglo-Saxon speech and custom. Blackstone is its great exponent. The right of property, he says, is " that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...the right of any other individual in the universe." * But " there is no foundation in nature or in natural law why a set of words upon parchment should... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1890 - 850 pages
...observations, before I proceed to distribute and consider it's several objects. [See note 3, page 24.] f*] There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as th 3 right of property; or ethat sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over... | |
 | John C. Devereux - 1891 - 432 pages
...Are men-in general well informed as to the nature and origin of these rights ?— 2. They are not : there is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination,...other individual in the universe. And yet there are few that will give themselves the trouble to consider the origin and foundation of this right. Pleased... | |
 | 1891 - 846 pages
...THE TENURE OF LAND IN ENGLAND.* BY D. McG. MEANS. PART ONE. THERE is nothing, as Blackstonef says, which so generally strikes the imagination and engages...the affections of mankind as the right of property ; "that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the... | |
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THERE is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property ; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion... 
