 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...  Commentaries on the laws of England. [Another] - Page viiby sir William Blackstone - 1825Full view - About this book
 | Colorado. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 990 pages
...something that belongs or inheres exclusively in an individual person." * * * "The right of property is that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...external things of the world, in total exclusion of the rights of every other individual in the universe. The ubtolute right of private property consists in... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1901 - 754 pages
...as undoubted as the other. The control of the owner is absolute. In the words of Blackstone, it is " that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...the right of any other individual in the universe " (2 Blackstone Com., 2). The law on this point is thus stated in Wynehamer v. The People, 13 NY, 378,... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1902 - 540 pages
...consider its several objects. *There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and [*z engages the affections of mankind, as the right of...the right of any other individual in the universe. (2) And yet there are very few that will give themselves the trouble to consider the original and foundation... | |
 | International Correspondence Schools - Contracts - 1903 - 636 pages
...PROPERTY IN GENERAL— REAL AND PERSONAL 1. "There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right...exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe."1 So great is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the... | |
 | Horace La Fayette Wilgus - Corporation law - 1902 - 1252 pages
...by the laws of the land," and in another place, book 2, page 2, speaks of the right of property as "that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...the right of any other individual in the universe." Bouvier, in his Law Dictionary, in defining the word property, says: "It is the right to enjoy and... | |
 | Edgar Benton Kinkead - Torts - 1902 - 924 pages
...act is but the incident of the first wrong, the trespass. Blackstone defines the right of property as "that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...external things of the world, in total exclusion of the rights of any other individual in the universe."20 This right of property, or dominion, draws with... | |
 | Pennsylvania Bar Association - Bar associations - 1903 - 620 pages
...government and himself. It is well to note that he speaks of "that sole and despotic dominion which one man exercises over the external things of the world, in...the right of any other individual in the universe." He is sole seized of the property for which he holds the title, and therefore he does not hold in subjection... | |
 | Walter Thomas Mills - Economics - 1904 - 652 pages
..."There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind on the right of property; or that sole and despotic dominion...universe. And yet there are very few that will give themselves the trouble to consider the original and foundation of this right. Pleased as we are with... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 1074 pages
...way of descent, and imparting to the owner the power of disposition. . . . The right of property is that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...the right of any other individual in the universe. It consists in the free use, enjoyment, and disposal of all a person's acquisitions, without any control... | |
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