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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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Private and Common Property, Volume 3

Richard Allen Epstein - Law - 2000 - 410 pages
...definition of property? D. Yes, Blackstone refers to property as the "sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things...exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe,"4 And Blackstone also says: 1n the hegioning of the world, we are informed by Holy Writ,...
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Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child Or the Dog?

Gary Francione - Nature - 2010 - 272 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...exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe."15 In discussing the philosophical foundation of the right of property, Blackstone rejected...
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Die Übertragung von Rechtsvorstellungen auf fremde Kulturen am Beispiel des ...

Helmut Janssen - Law - 2000 - 244 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 rieht of any other individual in the universe." BLACKSTONE II Chapter l, p. 2 (1765). 16*BUTT, S. 3;...
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Law 101: Everything You Need to Know about the American Legal System

Jay M. Feinman - Business & Economics - 2000 - 380 pages
...eighteenth-century treatise on English law called "sole and despotic dominion . . . over . . . things ... in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe." Ownership, or dominion, is the ability to control the use of the property. Suzie can pretend that her...
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Textual Practice, Volume 3

Alan Sinfield, Deputy Editor: Lindsay Smith - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 164 pages
...97-8). 23 According to Blackstone, the tight of property is 'that sole and despotic domution which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in toral exclusion of the tight of any other individual in the universe' (cited in Thompson, Customs in...
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Classical Foundations of Liberty and Property

Richard Epstein - Law - 2000 - 438 pages
...UMES MADISON. ioi PROPERTY.i This term in its particular application means " that dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in exclusion of every other individual." In its larger and juster meaning, it embraces every thing to...
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Romancing the Shadow: Poe and Race

J. Gerald Kennedy, Liliane Weissberg - African Americans in literature - 2001 - 314 pages
...falls. If we take Blackstone's stunning embrace of property as the "sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things...the right of any other individual in the universe" (2:2), 15 we find a key not only to Poe's monomaniacal narrators but also, and more important, to his...
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The Lost World of Classical Legal Thought: Law and Ideology in America, 1886 ...

William M. Wiecek - History - 2001 - 300 pages
...economy of Jacksonian America. Blackstone defined property as "that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things...exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe."221 His view stressed two dominant characteristics of property: the object was physical things,...
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New Essays in the Legal and Political Theory of Property

Stephen R. Munzer - Business & Economics - 2001 - 232 pages
...supreme virtue. Often cited is Blackstone's invocation of "that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things...exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe."3** Blackstone, however, also argued that, in the state of nature, someone who first 37 See...
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Romancing the Shadow: Poe and Race

J. Gerald Kennedy, Liliane Weissberg - African Americans in literature - 2001 - 314 pages
...falls. If we take Blackstone's stunning embrace of property as the "sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of the tight of any other individual in the universe" (2:2),^ we tind a key not only to Poe's monomaniacal...
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