...right' vested in individuals 'by the immutable laws of nature'.8 Famously, he defined property as 'the sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and...the world, in total exclusion of the right of any individual in the universe'.9 But this focus on the 'absolute' nature of property can mislead.10 As...

...and the growth of population" made offences against property more common. William Blackstone wrote, "there is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination,...affections of mankind, as the right of property," and his editor Christian referred in 1793 to "that law of property, which nature herself has written...

...at the center of the conceptual scheme of lawyers and po litical theorists. Thus, Blackstone wrote: "There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination,...affections of mankind, as the right of property."" And the French Civil Code had as its "grand and principal object" (in the words of one of its authors)...

...of "property as individual absolute dominion": "that sole and despotic dominion which one man [sic] claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of the rights of any other individual in the universe," as Blackstone phrased it. 1 Orlando, then, must relate...

...property rights and made government paramount. James Madison explained that property . .. means that dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in exclusion of every other individual ... it embraces everything to which a man may attach a value and...

...included in his right of property.” 9 Blackstone, defining the absolute nature of this right, called it: “that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things in the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe.” 20 Through...

...included in his right of property."19 Blackstone, defining the absolute nature of this right, called it: "that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things in the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe."20 Through forms...

...England, written during that period, evidences this acceptance by stating that the "right of property" is "that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...exercises over the external things of the world, in the total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe."" However, the best-known...

...racially closed space of "family." "There is nothing," William Blackstone remarks in his Commentaries, "which so generally strikes the imagination and engages...affections of mankind, as the right of property; or the sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world,...

...enjoyment of what he acquired by his fortune and industry. Like Blackstone, Hamilton thought that nothing "so generally strikes the imagination and engages...affections of mankind, as the right of property," and that it tended "more powerfully than any other cause to augment the national wealth." His vision...