 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
 | 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... | |
 | Mary Ann Glendon - Political Science - 2008 - 240 pages
...estates — the great admirer of property admitted that the subject of its origins was not for everyone: Pleased as we are with the possession [of property],...acquired, as if fearful of some defect in our title. . . . These inquiries, it must be owned, would be useless or even troublesome in common life. It is... | |
 | 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,... | |
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