 | David Kemper Watson - 1910 - 1074 pages
...definitions have been given of this term. As applied to lands, it means every kind of title. 78 Also, "the sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and...the right of any other individual in the universe." 79 It is the "free use and enjoyment by a person of all his acquisitions, without any control or diminution,... | |
 | David Kemper Watson - 1910 - 1140 pages
...definitions have been given of this term. As applied to lands, it means every kind of title.78 Also, "the sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and...exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe."78 It is the "free use and enjoyment by a person of all his acquisitions, without any control... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Lands - 1910 - 74 pages
...receive patents therefor. This promise, made by Congress, should not be repudiated. MOTIVES OF ENTRYMEN. "There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind," says Mr. Justice Blackstone, "as the right of property; of that sole and despotic dominion which one... | |
 | New York (State). Public Service Commission. Second District - 1911 - 808 pages
...an exchangeable value. 2 1'lackstone's Commentaries, page 2, it is said: The right of property a the sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and...the right of any other individual in the universe. In Dixon vs. People, 63 111. App. 590, it is said: The word, in its appropriate sense, means tangible... | |
 | 1911 - 932 pages
...from himself and his successors. (Austin, Jurisprudence.) "The sole and despotic dominion which one claims and exercises over the external things of the world in total exclusion of the right of any individual in the world. (Blackstone.) "It will be seen that property is products of nature or of labor,... | |
 | 1888 - 990 pages
...Anglo-Saxon speech and custom. Blackstone is its great exponent. The right of property, he says, is " thift sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1912 - 476 pages
...presently. From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, latest edition, I read the following definition of property: The sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and...the right of any other individual in the universe. The right to possess, use, enjoy, and dispose of a thing. On page 261 of the English and American Encyclopedia... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1912 - 396 pages
...enjoying, and disposing of a thing." (Century Dictionary.) "The sole and despotic dominion which one claims and exercises over the external things of the...exclusion of the right of any other individual in the world." (Blackstone.) It will be seen that property is products of nature or of labor, and that the... | |
 | Edward Sherwood Mead - 1913 - 512 pages
...question concerns the institution of private property. The right of property is defined by Blackstone as "that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...the right of any other individual in the universe." l The i Cooley's Blackstone, 3d Ed., Vol. I, Book II, p. 1. origin of private property is explained... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1913 - 188 pages
...from himself and his successors. (Austin, Jurisprudence. ) The sole and despotic dominion which one claims and exercises over the external things of the...exclusion of the right of any other individual in the world. (Blackstone. ) It will be seen that property is products of nature or of labor, and that 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... 
