 | 370 pages
...has any better title to a particular possession of land than his neighbour." — Archdeacon Paley. " There is no foundation in nature or in natural law why a set of words on parchment should give to any one a dominion of land." — Judge BlacTcstone. A. 0. C. WHAT IS NATURAL... | |
 | Richard Epstein - Law - 2000 - 438 pages
...will and teftament of the dying owner ; not caring to reflect that (accurately and ftrictly ("peaking) there is no foundation in nature or in natural law, why a let of words upon parchment fhould convey the dominion of Jand ; why the fon fhould have a right to... | |
 | Margaret Thornton - Law - 2002 - 333 pages
...we are with the possession, we seem afraid to look back to the means by which it was acquired...not caring to reflect that (accurately and strictly speaking)...land; why the son should have a right to exclude his fellow creatures from a determinate spot of ground, because his father had done so before him... 6... | |
 | Paul O. Carrese - Law - 2010 - 350 pages
...positivism and a Scholastic, common-law naturalism. He declares that "there is no foundation in nature or natural law, why a set of words upon parchment should convey the dominion of land," and he scoffs that the dispute among such "writers on natural law" as Grotius, Pufendorf, and Locke... | |
 | Sarah Jordan - History - 2003 - 308 pages
...allowed to give the fairest and most reasonable title to an exclusive property therein.' He says, that there is no foundation in nature, or in natural law, why a set of worAi on parchment should give to any one the dominion of land. Thus, then, we see that LABOUR must... | |
 | Stephen M. Best - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 375 pages
...in our favour, without examining the reason or authority upon which those laws have been built. . . not caring to reflect that (accurately and strictly...upon parchment should convey the dominion of land. (William Blackstone, "Of the Rights of Things" (1765), in Commentaries on the Laws of England [Chicago:... | |
 | Stephen M. Best - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 375 pages
...authority upon which those laws have been built . . . not caring to reflect that (accurately and stricdy speaking) there is no foundation in nature or in natural...upon parchment should convey the dominion of land. (William Blackstone, "Of the Rights of Things" (1765), in Commentaries on the Laws of England [Chicago:... | |
 | Susan Glover - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 240 pages
...we are with the possession, we seem afraid to look back to the means by which it was acquired. . . . not caring to reflect that (accurately and strictly...land; why the son should have a right to exclude his fellow creatures from a determinate spot of ground, because his father had done so before him; or why... | |
 | Allan Hepburn - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 313 pages
...Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-9) with a discussion of the unnaturalness of property and wills: 'there is no foundation in nature or in natural law,...exclude his fellow-creatures from a determinate spot of land because his father had done so before him; or why the occupier of a particular field or of a jewel,... | |
 | Knights of Labor - Labor - 1883 - 198 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....convey the dominion of land; why the son should have the right to exclude his fellow creatures from a determinate spot of ground because his father had... | |
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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... 
