 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - Dictionaries, Law - 1870 - 674 pages
...Spencer, CJ 17 Johns. R. 28:3. See 1 ComstocVsR. 20, 24. 3 Kernarfs R. 396. The right of property is that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...the right of any other individual in the universe. 2 Bl. Com. 2. The right of property consists in the free use, enjoyment and disposal of all a person's... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 836 pages
...of society, the right to the means of acquiring and possessing property. What is property ? It is " that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...external things of the world, in total exclusion of any other individual in the universe.1' 2 Black. Comm. 1, 2 ; 1 Ruth. Inst. lib. 1, ch. 3, § 1 ; Barb.... | |
 | William Blackstone, David Mitchell Aird - Law - 1873 - 386 pages
...engages the solicitude of mankind, as the right of property ; or that sole and despotic dominion which a man' claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of the right of other men ; yet few consider the origin and foundation of this right. Pleased with the possession,... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Joint tenancy - 1874 - 730 pages
...with him in fche original occupation. ; -J Co-ownership adapted to all forms of Civilization'. r^v1' There is nothing which so generally strikes the '•imagination...external things of the world in total exclusion of any other individual in the universe."' No doubt, this love of "sole dominion" has increased as the... | |
 | William Blackstone, Alexander Leith, James Frederick Smith - Law - 1880 - 650 pages
...writers on natural law style the rights of dominion, or property ; concerning the nature and original of which I shall first premise a few observations,...world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individ'al in the universe. And yet thwe are very few that •nil give themselves the trouble to consider... | |
 | Timothy Walker - Law - 1882 - 850 pages
...incorporeal hereditament*. By the right of property, I understand, in the language of Blackstone, " that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...external things of the world, in total exclusion of every other individual." (a) This is the definition of exclusive ownership, and it has been a question... | |
 | American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1883 - 1094 pages
...Justinian, there is no definition of the right of property or dominion, while Blackstone describes it to be "that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...the right of any other individual in the universe." (Vol. i., p. 2.) This smacks so strongly of Pothier, that one is tempted to suspect the source whence... | |
 | Law - 1883 - 908 pages
...control or diminution, save only by the laws of the land." 1 Bl. Com. 133. Again, he defines it as " that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...the right of any other individual in the universe :" Book II., p. 2. Again on page 15 of Book II., lie says that " the objects of dominion or property... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 760 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... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1888 - 958 pages
...Anglo-Saxon speech and custom. Blackstone is its great exponent. The right of property, he says, is " that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...the right of any other individual in the universe." * But " there is no foundation in nature or in natural law why a set of words upon parchment should... | |
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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,... 
