The Great Land Question: Being a Verbatim Transcript of the Correspondence in Doe Versus Roe |
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absolute acres alienation amongst ancient autem baron chattels common law common recovery conveyance Court of Chancery cultivation deed descendants devise disposition donques effect eldest entails enter entry equal equity father favour fee simple fee taile feoffee feoffment feoffor fitz freehold grant hath heirs hereditaments husband immoveables incumbrances inheritance Insts interest issue J. S. Mill John Doe judges jurisprudence labour lawyers lease leasehold les xx lessee limitation Litt Littleton livery of seisin Lord manner Manor of Dale mode name of seisin owner parties peasant proprietors person portion possession primogeniture purchase quæ quod recovery registered registrar remainder remeyndre rent Richard Roe rock of technicality Roman rule Sect seised settlement socage sonne sons statute suppose tailzie tenant in tail tenements terres things tiel tion trust vested Vict Wellvesting WHITEACRE wife words
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Page 39 - I said, there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid.
Page 186 - Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make large fortunes.
Page 186 - There is room in the world, no doubt, and even in old countries, for a great increase of population, supposing the arts of life to go on improving, and capital to increase. But even if innocuous, I confess I see very little reason for desiring it. The density of population necessary to enable mankind to obtain, in the greatest degree, all the advantages both of co-operation and of social intercourse, has, in all the most populous countries been attained.
Page 140 - That no will shall be valid unless it shall be in writing and executed in manner herein-after mentioned ; (that is to say,) it shall be signed at the foot or end thereof by the testator, or by some other person in his presence and by his direction...
Page 186 - A world from which solitude is extirpated, is a very poor ideal. Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character; and solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur, is the cradle of thoughts and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without.
Page 175 - sacredness of property " is talked of, it should always be remembered, that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property. No man made the land. It is the original inheritance of the whole species. Its appropriation is wholly a question of general expediency. When private property in land is not expedient, it is unjust.
Page 191 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.
Page 174 - Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Page 40 - Now, your Honour is to know that these Judges are persons appointed to decide all controversies of property, as well as for the trial of criminals, and picked out from the most dexterous lawyers who are grown old or lazy...
Page 187 - The essential principle of property being to assure to all persons what they have produced by their labour and accumulated by their abstinence, this principle cannot apply to what is not the produce of labour, the raw material of the earth.