 | William Blackstone - Law - 1872 - 776 pages
...affections of mankind, as the right of property; or that L -I sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things...right of any other individual in the universe. And yet there are very few that will give themselves the trouble to consider the original and foundation... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 836 pages
...acquiring and possessing property. What is property ? It is " that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of any other individual in the universe.1' 2 Black. Comm. 1, 2 ; 1 Ruth. Inst. lib. 1, ch. 3, § 1 ; Barb.... | |
 | David Mitchell Aird - Law - 1873 - 366 pages
...to Property. There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the solicitude of mankind, as the right of property; or that sole...things of the world, in total exclusion of the right of other men ; yet few consider the origin and foundation of this right. Pleased with the possession,... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Joint tenancy - 1874 - 730 pages
...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 of any other individual in the universe."' No doubt, this love of "sole dominion" has increased as the... | |
 | John Tillotson - Quotations - 1880 - 392 pages
...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...right of any other individual in the universe. And yet there are very few that will give themselves the trouble to consider the original and foundation... | |
 | William Blackstone, Alexander Leith, James Frederick Smith - Law - 1880 - 650 pages
...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...world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individ'al in the universe. And yet thwe are very few that •nil give themselves the trouble to consider... | |
 | Timothy Walker - Law - 1882 - 850 pages
...property, I understand, in the language of Blackstone, " that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the 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 - Bar associations - 1883 - 1094 pages
...property or dominion, while Blackstone describes it to be "that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things...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... | |
 | Law - 1883 - 908 pages
...laws of the land." 1 Bl. Com. 133. Again, he defines it as " that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things...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... | |
 | John C. Devereux - Law - 1891 - 432 pages
...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...right of any other individual in the universe. And yet there are few that will give themselves the trouble to consider the origin and foundation of this... | |
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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... 
