 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pagina’s
...PROPERTY EXPLAINED. THERE is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property ; or that sole...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 - 1825 - 626 pagina’s
...objects. THERE is nothing which so generally strikes the imagin- [ 2 ation, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property ; or that sole...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 - 1827 - 916 pagina’s
...objects. There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and [ 2 ] engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property ; or that sole...which one man claims and exercises over the external thingsof the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe. And yet... | |
 | 1830 - 446 pagina’s
...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 - 1833 - 404 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 - 1839 - 274 pagina’s
...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 - 1040 pagina’s
...contained in every definition of property. Blackstone (ii. I) 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... | |
 | 1841 - 524 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Materials - 1846 - 478 pagina’s
...generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property ; of that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...exclusion of the right of any other individual in the nniverse. And yet there are very few that will give themselves the trouble to consider the original... | |
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They are not : 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,... 
