| Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1829 - 582 pages
...set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living : that the dead have neither powers nor rights...formed no rules for the appropriation of its lands in severalty, it will be taken by the first occupants, and these will generally be the wife and children... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 554 pages
...set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living : that the dead have neither powers nor rights...formed no rules for the appropriation of its lands in severalty, it will be taken by the first occupants, and these will generally be the wife and children... | |
| Orestes Augustus Brownson - Christian socialism - 1840 - 104 pages
...says, " on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living ; that the dead have neither powers nor rights...occupied by any individual ceases to be his, when he himself ceases to be, and reverts to society.•'•' * Bentham says ; " Property and law are born... | |
| Charles Grandison Thomas - Inheritance and succession - 1841 - 60 pages
...authority to the same point with those cited, who says, " the earth belongs, in usufruct, to the living. The dead have neither powers nor rights over it. The...occupied by any individual ceases to be his, when he himself ceases to be, and reverts to society." Bentham's dictum swells the list, without adding... | |
| American literature - 1840 - 532 pages
...this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the Jiving ; that the dead have neither powers nor rights over...occupied by any individual ceases to be his, when he himself ceases to be, and reverts to society." * Bentlmm says ; " Property and law are born together,... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1853 - 612 pages
...set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living ; that the dead have neither powers nor rights...formed no rules for the appropriation of its lands in severality, it will be taken by the first occupants, and these will generally be the wife and children... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 616 pages
...set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living ; that the dead have neither powers nor rights...formed no rules for the appropriation of its lands in severality, it will be taken by the first occupants, and these will generally be the wife and children... | |
| George Lewis Prentiss - Lawyers - 1855 - 598 pages
...set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufmct to the living; that the dead have neither powers nor rights...portion occupied by any individual ceases to be his when he himself ceases to be, and reverts to the society. * * * If they have formed rules of appropriation,... | |
| Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 764 pages
...set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living ; that the dead have neither powers nor rights...formed no rules for the appropriation of its lands in severalty, it will be taken by the first occupants, and these will generally be the wife and children... | |
| Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 916 pages
...set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living ; that the dead have neither powers nor rights...portion occupied by any individual ceases to be his when himFclf ceases to be, and reverts to the society. If the society has formed no rules for the appropriation... | |
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