 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} in total exclusion...  Annual Register of World Events - Page 2851800Full view - About this book
 | 1891 - 846 pages
...ENGLAND.* BY D. McG. MEANS. PART ONE. THERE is nothing, as Blackstonef says, which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind as the right of property ; "that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the... | |
 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1893 - 558 pages
...consider its several objects. null. IN OF IUI.1IT OF PROPERTY. 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 tilings of the world,... | |
 | George A. Richardson - Social history - 1896 - 472 pages
...institutions. Concerning property, he naively says : " 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 Angus MacVannel - Will - 1896 - 114 pages
...absolute or universal will. § 37. " There is nothing," says Blackstone, " 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,... | |
 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1899 - 570 pages
...consider its several objects. Origin of Right of Property. 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,... | |
 | International Correspondence Schools - Contracts - 1903 - 636 pages
...PROPERTY (PART 1) PROPERTY IN GENERAL— REAL AND PERSONAL 1. "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,... | |
 | Pennsylvania Bar Association - Bar associations - 1903 - 620 pages
...the ownership of property. Sir William Blackstone says, "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,... | |
 | Charles Erehart Chadman - Law - 1912 - 624 pages
...Book II., page 2), from which we quote the following: "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,... | |
 | Frederic Mathews - Social problems - 1914 - 706 pages
...reference to the right of society over the land it occupies. "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,... | |
 | Frederick Haller - Capital - 1914 - 304 pages
...than force to sustain the right of property. He said: "There is nothing which so generously strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind as the right of property; of the sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the... | |
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