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 | 1836 - 708 pages
...r. AKT. VI.— LITERARY PROPERTY. "There is nothing," says Blackstone, "which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property; on that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the... | |
 | William Blackstone - Great Britain - 1838 - 910 pages
...consider its several objects. •There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, [ *2 ] and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property ; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world,... | |
 | John Taylor - Quotations - 1839 - 274 pages
...Jeng in bitterness. — Sterne. Right of Property. — There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property ; of that sole and despotic dominion wJiich one man claims and exercises over the external things of... | |
 | Materials - 1846 - 478 pages
...bitterness. — Sterne. CCCLXXIII. Right of Property. — There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property ; of that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of... | |
 | John Pickering - Business & Economics - 1847 - 222 pages
...Blackstone's reflections on the nature of property in general: " There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property, or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world,... | |
 | John Sangster - Debts, Public - 1851 - 280 pages
...authors on English law, and the constitution of the rights of property, ' which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property, or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world,... | |
 | Charles Bishop Goodrich - United States - 1853 - 364 pages
...and disposition of its soil. An eminent jurist has said, there is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind as the right of property, or that sole- and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world,... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - Civil procedure - 1856 - 612 pages
...of man. Sir William Blackstone says, (2 Com. 2,) that " there is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property, or that sole and despotic dominion which a man claims, and exercises, over the external things of the world,... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1858 - 724 pages
...of man. Sir William Blackstone says, (2 Com. 2,) that "there is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind as the right of property, or that sole and despotic dominion which a man claims and exercises over the external things of the world,... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1860 - 874 pages
...consider its several objects. *There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and p^,, engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property; or that *• solo and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the... | |
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