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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... "
Practice Reports in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals - Page 339
by Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1856
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The Abolition of Inheritance

Harlan Eugene Read - Decedents' estates - 1918 - 360 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 the rights of any other individual in the universe. And yet there are very few that will give themselves...
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Legal Definitions: A Collection of Words and Phrases as Applied ..., Volume 2

Law - 1920 - 904 pages
...The sole and exclusive dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of this world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe. Law of Burial, 4 Bradf. Surr. R. (NT) 516. The right and interest which a man has in lands and chattels...
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Wills, Estates & Trusts: A Manual of Law, Accounting, & Procedure ...

Thomas Conyngton, H. C. Knapp, P. W. Pinkerton - Estates (Law) - 1921 - 864 pages
...Blackstone in stately phrase defines the rights of property as: 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.' In a late Illinois case, the court held that: Property in its appropriate...
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Source Book in the Philosophy of Education

William Heard Kilpatrick - Education - 1923 - 408 pages
...Boni Liveright, 1920, p. 183 ff.). 234. PROPERTY "Property is the sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things...the right of any other individual in the universe." Blackstone. 235. LIMITATION UPON RIGHTS "No man has a right to all of his rights." Phillips Brooks....
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Municipality of Buffalo, New York: A History, 1720-1923, Volume 1

Henry Wayland Hill - Buffalo (N.Y.) - 1923 - 586 pages
...engages the affections of mankind as the right of property, or the sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things...the right of any other individual in the universe." In these words, Blackstone, the fountain head of English law, voiced a sentiment which is as true to-day...
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The Leather Worker's Journal

1916 - 458 pages
...enjoying and disposing of a thing." Blackstone's definition is: "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." "It will be seen from these definitions," says President Furuseth, "that nothing can be property...
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Trust Functions

Robert Mayer (assistant trust officer.), American Institute of Banking - Trust companies - 1927 - 488 pages
...such property and property rights. The right of property is that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things...the right of any other individual in the universe. It consists in the free use, enjoyment, and disposal of all of a person's acquisitions, without any...
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The Central Law Journal, Volume 71

Law - 1910 - 506 pages
...from himself and his successors. (Austin, Jurisprudence.) The sole and despotic dominion which one claims and exercises over the external things of the...total exclusion of the right of any other individual iu the world. (Blackstone.) It will be seen that property is products of nature or of labor, and that...
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Problem Economics

Dexter Merriam Keezer, Addison Thayer Cutler, Frank Richardson Garfield - Economics - 1928 - 736 pages
...In defining the "right of property," he said that it was "that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things...the right of any other individual in the universe." That was a sweeping definition. It meant that the owner could do with his property just exactly what...
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Entitlement: The Paradoxes of Property

Joseph William Singer - Philosophy - 2000 - 255 pages
...heavy.10 In the words of Sir William Blackstone, properly is "that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things...the right of any other individual in the universe." 1 ' Since regulations are conceptualized as limits on the preexisting rights of the owner, property...
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