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| Richard Epstein - Law - 2000 - 438 pages
...confider it's feveral ohjects. VOL. II. A ft ttc R ic HT s BOOK tl. THERE is nothing which fo generally ftrikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property ; or that folc and defpotic dominion which one man claims and exercifes over the external things of the world,... | |
| Helmut Janssen - Law - 2000 - 244 pages
...benutzten Begriffe „estate" und „title" geklärt. 168 „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,... | |
| Richard Allen Epstein - Law - 2000 - 410 pages
...... 1393 B. Multimember Households 1394 CONCLUSlON 1397 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,... | |
| Gary Francione - Law - 2010 - 276 pages
...greatest commentators on the common law, 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,... | |
| Margaret Thornton - Law - 2002 - 333 pages
...recognition of entitlement, narrative, writing, and pleasure: 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...... | |
| H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr., L.M. Rasmussen - Philosophy - 2002 - 315 pages
...Blackstone, reflecting on the common law of England, argued: "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,... | |
| Carl Wellman - History - 2002 - 424 pages
...lawyers and po litical theorists. Thus, Blackstone wrote: "There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property."" And the French Civil Code had as its "grand and principal object" (in the words of one of its authors)... | |
| Judith Frank - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 252 pages
...against property more common. William Blackstone wrote, "there is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property," and his editor Christian referred in 1793 to "that law of property, which nature herself has written... | |
| Terry L. Anderson, Fred S. McChesney - Law - 2003 - 412 pages
...Blackstone noted ([1766] 1979, Book II, Chapter 1, 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,... | |
| Thadious M. Davis - Law - 2003 - 356 pages
..."family." "There is nothing," William Blackstone remarks in his Commentaries, "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,... | |
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