 | 1895 - 658 pagina’s
...society, has presented this question to iny.uiiud; and that no such obligation can be transmitted I thiuk very capable of proof. I set out on this ground, which...that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living. He proceeds to show to his own satisfaction that the sole basis of a right of inheritance is " the... | |
 | Roscoe Pound - 1930 - 200 pagina’s
...jurisprudence2. Fourteen years before 1 " I set out on this ground which I suppose to be self evident, ' that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living,"...the dead have neither powers nor rights over it.... On similar grounds it may be proved that no society can make a perpetual constitution or even a perpetual... | |
 | A. Robert Lee, W. M. Verhoeven - 1996 - 372 pagina’s
...accommodated" (CW, 251), much like Jefferson's claim to James Madison two years earlier that "the earth helongs in usufruct to the living: that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it"39 erases both the past and the future and creates a revolutionary sense of immediacy that resists... | |
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I 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 over it. 
