 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... | |
 | Robert Hamilton - Economics - 1830 - 812 pages
...benevolent but enthusiastic turn of mind may be desirous of calling in the interposition of power to cdrrect these inequalities, and relieve the unfortunate industrious...million, of ages after him, which would be highly absut'4 and inconvenient. All property, therefore, must cease upon death, considering men as absolute... | |
 | 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... | |
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