 Necessity begat property : and in order to insure that property, recourse was had to civil society, which brought along with it a long train of inseparable concomitants ; states, government, laws, punishments, and the public exercise of religious duties....  Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books - Page 8by William Blackstone - 1807Full view - About this book
 | Crawford Brough Macpherson, Calgary Institute for the Humanities - Business & Economics - 1979 - 404 pages
..."exclusive" dominion of a given individual over certain "external things." It was Blackstone's opinion that Necessity begat property: and, in order to insure...concomitants; states, government, laws, punishments,. . .13 For Bentham property was the offspring of desire, as basic to man as the exercise of his own... | |
 | Mary Ann Glendon - Political Science - 2008 - 240 pages
...these conditions, in Blackstone's estimation, was the need for stability and permanence in ownership: "Necessity begat property; and in order to insure...punishments, and the public exercise of religious duties."10 Blackstone, unlike Locke, was interested in property for its own sake. In fact, interested... | |
 | Richard Epstein - Law - 2000 - 438 pages
...train of infeparahlc concomitants ; dates, government, laws, punUh•nents, and the puhlic exercife of religious duties. Thus connected together, it was found that a part only of fociety was fumcient to provide, hy their manual lahour, for the neceflary fuhfiftence of all ; and... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1867 - 466 pages
...giving it opportunities of improving its rational, as well as of exerting its natural faculties. 13. Necessity begat property; and, in order to insure...Thus connected together, it was found that a part ouly of society was sufficient to provide, by their manual labor, for the necessary subsistence of... | |
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