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 | William Blackstone - Law - 1915 - 1632 pages
...its several objects. § 2. 1. Origin of property. — I21 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 domintrespasses of all kinds, slander per se, and all other direct wronga; while... | |
 | Harlan Eugene Read - Decedents' estates - 1918 - 360 pages
...document known as a will. He says (Book II, Oh. 1, Sec. 2) : " 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,... | |
 | Henry Wayland Hill - Buffalo (N.Y.) - 1923 - 586 pages
...Buffaloe — Conveyance of Buffalo Creek Reservation. "There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind as the right of property, or the sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world... | |
 | Law - 1890 - 838 pages
...Blackstime, Book ii, chap. i. 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,... | |
 | California. Office of Planning and Research - Environmental ethics - 1979 - 68 pages
...Photograph courtesy of Sandra Nash. * < OPEN Chapter Three. There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property. William Blackstone, Commentaries (1890) We feel that most people want some private land. We also agree... | |
 | Gary Francione - Law - 2012 - 369 pages
...States and inherited from Great Britain, stated that "[t]here 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,... | |
 | Richard A. Epstein - Law - 1985 - 380 pages
...Consider Blackstone's definition in his Commentaries: "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 Phillip Reid - Law - 2003 - 398 pages
...Blackstone, Viner Professor in Oxford University, insisted that "there is nothing which so generally strickes 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,... | |
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