Pleased as we are with the possession, we seem afraid to look back to the means by which it was acquired, as if fearful of some defect in our title ; or at least we rest satisfied with the decision of the laws in our favour, without examining the reason... Principles of Political Economy - Page 30by George Poulett Scrope - 1833 - 457 pagesFull view - About this book
| Harlan Eugene Read - Decedents' estates - 1918 - 360 pages
...the trouble to consider the original foundation of this right. Pleased as we are with the possession, we seem afraid to look back to the means by which...acquired, as if fearful of some defect in our title ; human rights, the document adds authority to natural right and confirms it. If the law is wrong,... | |
| Stanford University. Graduate School of Business - Business education - 1926 - 232 pages
...private property of their own in which they can be interested. I paraphrase Blackstone when I say, Pleased as we are with the possession of property, we seem afraid to look back to the means by which we have acquired it, as if fearful of some defect in our title. We obtain and hold our property, both... | |
| Menno Boldt, J. Anthony Long, Leroy Little Bear - Social Science - 1985 - 424 pages
...trouble to consider the origin and foundation of this right. Pleased as we are with the possession, we seem afraid to look back to the means by which...defect in our title; or at best, we rest satisfied with thedecision ofthelawsin our favour, without examining the reason or authority upon which those laws... | |
| Walter Lippmann - 212 pages
...would limit their absolute rights. foreboding, he wrote that "Pleased as we are with the possession, we seem afraid to look back to the means by which...acquired, as if fearful of some defect in our title ... not caring to reflect that (accurately and strictly speaking) there is no foundation in nature... | |
| Lynton Keith Caldwell, Kristin Sharon Shrader-Frechette - Business & Economics - 1993 - 356 pages
...same point. He wrote: Pleased as we are with the possession [of land], we seem afraid to look back on the means by which it was acquired, as if fearful of some defect in our title . . . not caring to reflect that, accurately and strictly speaking, there is no foundation in nature... | |
| John Christman - Philosophy - 1994 - 232 pages
...the whole apparatus is quite puzzling. As Blackstone put it, [p]leased as we are with the possession, we seem afraid to look back to the means by which...acquired, as if fearful of some defect in our title;. .. not caring to reflect that.. . there is no foundation in nature or in natural law, why a set of... | |
| Richard Epstein - Law - 2000 - 438 pages
...confider the original and foundation of this right. Pleafed as we are with the puflcfl'ion, we feem afraid to look back to the means by which it was acquired, as if fearful of fome defecl in our title ; or at beft we reft fatisfied with the decifion of the laws in our favour,... | |
| Samuel Warren, Thomas W. Clerke - Law - 2004 - 676 pages
...Pleased as we are with the possession" says Blackstone [ii. Comm.p. 2] speaking of the origin and growth of property, " we seem afraid to look back to the...acquired — as if fearful of some defect in our title !" lot) The three grand divisions of the Legal Profession, as already intimated in this chapter, are... | |
| Stephen M. Best - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 375 pages
...consider the original and foundation of this right [in property]. Pleased as we are with the possession, we seem afraid to look back to the means by which...was acquired, as if fearful of some defect in our tide; or at best we rest satisfied with the decision of the laws in our favour, without examining the... | |
| Susan Glover - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 240 pages
...trouble to consider the original and foundation of this right. Pleased as we are with the possession, we seem afraid to look back to the means by which it was acquired. . . . not caring to reflect that (accurately and strictly speaking) there is no foundation in nature... | |
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