 For, naturally speaking, the instant a man ceases to be, he ceases to have any dominion: else, if he had a right to dispose of his acquisitions one moment beyond his life, he would also have a right to direct their disposal for a million of ages after...  The Progress of Society - Page 201by Robert Hamilton - 1830 - 411 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 698 pages
...pancy, for it cannnt be said that in such a case there is ever a vacancy of possession. VOt. ii, 3 their disposal for a million of ages after him ; which would be highly absurd and inconvenient. AH property must therefore cease upon death, considering men as absolute individuals, and unconnected... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...: else, if he had a right to dispose of his acquisitions one moment beyond his life, he would also have a right to direct their disposal for a million...would be highly absurd and inconvenient. All property must therefore cease upon death, considering men as absolute individuals, and unconnected with civil... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 626 pages
...295. else if he had a right to dispose of his acquisitions one moment beyond his life, he vrould also have a right to direct their disposal for a million...would be highly absurd and inconvenient. All property must therefore cease upon death, considering men as absolute individuals, and unconnected with civil... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1827 - 916 pages
...dominion : else if he had a right to dispose of his acquisitions one moment beyond his life, he would also have a right to direct their disposal for a million of ages after him : which would he highly absurd and inconvenient. All property must therefore cease upon death, considering men as... | |
 | 1830 - 744 pages
...dominion : else if he had a right to dispose of his acquisitions one moment beyond his life, he would also have a right to direct their disposal for a million of ages after 405 highly absurd and inconvenient. All property must therefore cease upon death, considering men as... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1836 - 852 pages
...dominion: else, if he had a right to dispose of his acquisitions one moment beyond his life, he would also have a right to direct their disposal for a million...would be highly absurd and inconvenient. All property must therefore cease upon death, considering men as absolute individuals, and unconnected with civil... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE - 1837 - 468 pages
...; else, if he had a right to dispose of his acquisitions one moment beyond his life, he would also have a right to direct their disposal for a million...would be highly absurd and inconvenient. All property must therefore cease upon death, considering men as absolute individuals, and unconnected with civil... | |
 | William Blackstone - Great Britain - 1838 - 910 pages
...dominion : else if he had a right to dispose of his acquisitions one moment beyond his life, he would also have a right to direct their disposal for a million...would be highly absurd and inconvenient. All property must therefore cease upon death, considering men as absolute individuals, and unconnected with civil... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1838 - 454 pages
...• else if he had a right to dispose of his acquisitions one moment beyond his life, he would also have a right to direct their disposal for a million...; which would be highly absurd and inconvenient." Again : but clearly a political establishment, since the permanent right of property, vested in the... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - Christian socialism - 1840 - 104 pages
...if he had a right to dispose of his acquisitions one moment beyond his life, he would also have the right to direct their disposal for a million of ages...; which would be highly absurd and inconvenient." The testamentary right now enjoyed by men is then a conventional and not a natural right. The man has... | |
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