 | John C. Devereux - Law - 1891 - 432 pages
...Are men-in general well informed as to the nature and origin of these rights ?— 2. They are not : there is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination,...other individual in the universe. And yet there are few that will give themselves the trouble to consider the origin and foundation of this right. Pleased... | |
 | 1891 - 846 pages
...generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind as the right of property ; "that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...the right of any other individual in the universe. ' ' This is peculiarly true of the institution of prop* Special English Course for C. I,. SC Graduates.... | |
 | George A. Richardson - Social history - 1896 - 472 pages
...into the justice or injustice of established institutions. Concerning property, he naively says : " There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination...external things of the world, in total exclusion of the rights of any other individual in the universe. And yet there are very few that will give themselves... | |
 | Colorado. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 990 pages
...something that belongs or inheres exclusively in an individual person." * * * "The right of property is that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...external things of the world, in total exclusion of the rights of every other individual in the universe. The ubtolute right of private property consists in... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1901 - 754 pages
...as undoubted as the other. The control of the owner is absolute. In the words of Blackstone, it is " that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...the right of any other individual in the universe " (2 Blackstone Com., 2). The law on this point is thus stated in Wynehamer v. The People, 13 NY, 378,... | |
 | International Correspondence Schools - Contracts - 1903 - 636 pages
...(1873) and 26 1ll. 259 (1861). THE LAW OF PROPERTY (PART 1) PROPERTY IN GENERAL— REAL AND PERSONAL 1. "There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination,...exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe."1 So great is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1902 - 540 pages
...consider its several objects. *There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and [*z engages the affections of mankind, as the right of...the right of any other individual in the universe. (2) And yet there are very few that will give themselves the trouble to consider the original and foundation... | |
 | Horace La Fayette Wilgus - Corporation law - 1902 - 1252 pages
...by the laws of the land," and in another place, book 2, page 2, speaks of the right of property as "that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...the right of any other individual in the universe." Bouvier, in his Law Dictionary, in defining the word property, says: "It is the right to enjoy and... | |
 | Edgar Benton Kinkead - Torts - 1902 - 924 pages
...act is but the incident of the first wrong, the trespass. Blackstone defines the right of property as "that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...external things of the world, in total exclusion of the rights of any other individual in the universe."20 This right of property, or dominion, draws with... | |
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They are not : 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,... 
