 | William Blackstone - Law - 1791 - 566 pages
...diftribute and confider it's feveral objects. THERE is nothing which fo generally ftrikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property ; or that fole and defpotic dominion which one man claims and exercifes over the external things of the world,... | |
 | History - 1800 - 594 pages
...apology for inferting it at length. " There is nothing which fo ge. • -rally ftrikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property ; or that fole and defpotic dominion which one man claims and exercifes over the external things of the world... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...RIGHT OF EXCLUSIVE PROPERTY EXPLAINED. THERE is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right...exercises over the external things of the world, in a total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe. And yet there are very few... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 626 pages
...and consider it's several objects. THERE is nothing which so generally strikes the imagin- [ 2 ation, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right...universe. And yet there are very few, that will give themVOL. II. B selves the trouble to consider the original and foundation of this right. Pleased as... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1827 - 916 pages
...consider its several objects. There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and [ 2 ] roost pernicious. A lawyer now is nothing more, I...use "ome of Tally's words, nisi legvleius quidem cau thingsof the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe. And yet... | |
 | Law - 1830 - 446 pages
...therein, 8ic, • This subject does not admit of being compressed into a (a) For instance, he speaks of the 'right of property, or that sole and despotic dominion, which one man claims and exercises, &c.' Again, when wishing to contradistinguish a temporary, insecure, or restricted dominion, from one... | |
 | Nathaniel Chipman - Constitutional law - 1833 - 404 pages
...universally strikes the imagination, and engages the attention of mankind, as the right of property, that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of this world, in exclusion of every other individual in the universe," and he might have added, nothing... | |
 | 1836 - 708 pages
...generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property; on that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...the right of any other individual in the universe." — Whether this right of property be natural or conventional, is a speculative question which we leave... | |
 | John Taylor - Quotations - 1839 - 274 pages
...engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property ; of that sole and despotic dominion wJiich one man claims and exercises over the external things...individual in the universe. And yet there are very few that wiJl give themselves the trouble to consider the original and foundation of this right. Pleased as... | |
 | 1841 - 524 pages
...contained in every definition of property. Blackstone (ii. 1) defines ' the right of property' to be ' that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...the right of any other individual in the universe." A foreign writer defines ownership or property to be ' the right to deal with a corporeal thing according... | |
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I proceed to distribute and consider its several objects. •There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, [ *2 ] and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property ; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims... 
