 | Charles Erehart Chadman - Law - 1912 - 624 pages
...the former proprietor, by descent from our ancestors, or by the last will and testament of the dying owner; not caring to reflect that (accurately and...strictly speaking) there is no foundation in nature or natural law, why a set of words upon parchment should convey the dominion of land; why the son should... | |
 | American essays - 1913 - 880 pages
...deliver him.' The same reasoning may be applied to land titles with equal force. Blackstone admits that 'there is no foundation in nature, or in natural law,...upon parchment should convey the dominion of land.' ' Whilst another man has no land,' says Emerson, 'my title to mine, your title to yours, is at once... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - Civil rights - 1913 - 522 pages
...expounder of the common law [Blackstone] in his "Commentaries" that "there is no foundation in nature or natural law why a set of words upon parchment should convey the dominion of land." The use and occupancy alone give to man, in the language of the "Commentaries," "an exclusive right... | |
 | Frederic Mathews - Social problems - 1914 - 706 pages
...the former proprietor, by descent from our ancestors, or by the last will and testament of the dying owner; not caring to reflect that (accurately and...determinate spot of ground, because his father had done so before him: or why the occupier of a particular field or of a jewel, when lying on his death-bed, and... | |
 | Frederick Haller - Capital - 1914 - 304 pages
...the former proprietor, by descent from our ancestors, or by the last will and testament of the dying owner; not caring to reflect that, accurately and...convey the dominion of land; why the son should have the right to exclude his fellow creatures from a determined spot of ground because his father had done... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1915 - 1632 pages
...the former proprietor, by descent from our ancestors, or by the last will and testament of the dying owner; not caring to reflect that (accurately and...from a determinate spot of ground, because his father The proof depends chiefly upon the sacred character that undoubtedly in early Greck, Roman, Hindoo,... | |
 | Single tax - 1915 - 240 pages
...deliver him." The same reasoning may be applied to land titles with equal force. Blackstone admits that "there is no foundation in nature, or in natural law,...upon parchment should convey the dominion of land." "Whilst another man has no land," says Emerson, "my title to mine, your title to yours, is at once... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - Public lands - 1916 - 446 pages
...labor has been applied? Blackstone in his Commentaries said that "there is no foundation in nature or natural law why a set of words upon parchment should convey the dominion of land." Use and occupancy alone give to man "an exclusive right to retain, in a permanent manner, that specific... | |
 | Joseph Dana Miller - Single tax - 1917 - 498 pages
...— Social Statics. Here are citations from eminent legal authorities: SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE — " Accurately and strictly speaking, there is no foundation in nature or in natural law why a set of words on parchment should convey the dominion of land." SIR FREDERICK POLLOCK — "It is commonly supposed... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - Income tax - 1918 - 812 pages
...Blackstone maintains it in the first chapter of the second book of his Commentaries, wherein he says: " There is no foundation in nature or in natural law...determinate spot of ground, because his father had done so before him; or why the occupier of a particular field or of a jewel, when lying on his death bed and... | |
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... there is no foundation in nature or in natural law, why a set of words upon parchment should convey the dominion of land... 
