 | Richard Theodore Ely - Contracts - 1914 - 542 pages
...two other definitions of property may now occupy our attention. Blackstone says 12 that property is "that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...the right of any other individual in the universe." Here we note a tendency, characteristically English perhaps, to exaggerate somewhat the idea of property,... | |
 | Granite industry and trade - 1916 - 450 pages
...and disposing of a thing." Blackstone's- definition is : "The sole and despotic dominion which one claims and exercises over the external things of the...exclusion of the right of any other individual in the world." ''It will be seen from these definitions," says President Furuseth, "that nothing can be property... | |
 | 1916 - 808 pages
...from himself and his successors." (Austin, Jurisprudence.) "The sole and despotic dominion which one claims and exercises over the external things of the...exclusion of the right of any other individual in the world." (Blackstone.) It will be seen from these definitions that nothing can be property unless it... | |
 | Harlan Eugene Read - Decedents' estates - 1918 - 360 pages
...as to the source of authority for the document known as a will. He says (Book II, Oh. 1, Sec. 2) : " 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... | |
 | Felix Adler - Ethics - 1918 - 400 pages
...provided that their joy be pure. The Eight to Property 2 "Property," according to Blackstone, "is the sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and...the right of any other individual in the universe." Orthodox jurisprudence, like orthodox religion, is characterized by the absoluteness of its formula.... | |
 | Law - 1920 - 904 pages
...The sole and exclusive dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of this world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe. Law of Burial, 4 Bradf. Surr. R. (NT) 516. The right and interest which a man has in lands and chattels... | |
 | Thomas Conyngton, H. C. Knapp, P. W. Pinkerton - Estates (Law) - 1921 - 864 pages
...private property or exclusive ownership. Blackstone in stately phrase defines the rights of property as: That sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...external things of the world, in total exclusion of every other individual.' In a late Illinois case, the court held that: Property in its appropriate... | |
 | Henry Wayland Hill - Buffalo (N.Y.) - 1923 - 586 pages
...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...the right of any other individual in the universe." In these words, Blackstone, the fountain head of English law, voiced a sentiment which is as true to-day... | |
 | William Heard Kilpatrick - Education - 1923 - 408 pages
...and Industrial Forces, New York, Boni Liveright, 1920, p. 183 ff.). 234. PROPERTY "Property is the sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and...the right of any other individual in the universe." Blackstone. 235. LIMITATION UPON RIGHTS "No man has a right to all of his rights." Phillips Brooks.... | |
 | 1916 - 458 pages
...enjoying and disposing of a thing." Blackstone's definition is: "The sole and despotic dominion which one claims and exercises over the external things of the...exclusion of the right of any other individual in the world." "It will be seen from these definitions," says President Furuseth, "that nothing can be property... | |
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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,... 
