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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,... "
Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books ; with an Analysis of the ... - Page xxiv
by William Blackstone - 1836
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Trust Functions

Robert Mayer (assistant trust officer.), American Institute of Banking - Trust companies - 1927 - 488 pages
...a grasp of the operation of trusts upon such property and property rights. The right of property is that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...the right of any other individual in the universe. It consists in the free use, enjoyment, and disposal of all of a person's acquisitions, without any...
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The Central Law Journal, Volume 71

Law - 1910 - 506 pages
...from himself and his successors. (Austin, Jurisprudence.) The sole and despotic dominion which one claims and exercises over the external things of the...total exclusion of the right of any other individual iu the world. (Blackstone.) It will be seen that property is products of nature or of labor, and that...
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Cases on the Law of Torts

Lyman P. Wilson - Torts - 1928 - 1130 pages
...every one from interfering with it." Bun-ill's L. Die., Property. Again, "the right of property is that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims,...the right of any other individual in the universe." 2 Bl. Com. 2. "The right of property consists in the free use, enjoyment, and disposal of all a person's...
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Problem Economics

Dexter Merriam Keezer, Addison Thayer Cutler, Frank Richardson Garfield - Economics - 1928 - 736 pages
...undergone many changes since Blackstone wrote. In defining the "right of property," he said that it was "that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...the right of any other individual in the universe." That was a sweeping definition. It meant that the owner could do with his property just exactly what...
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Limiting Scope of Injunctions in Labor Disputes, Volume 5

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Injunctions - 1929 - 220 pages
...definitions then defined property, in substance, as follows : " 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. ) And: "A right imparting to the owner a power of indefinite user, capable of...
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Limiting Scope of Injunctions in Labor Disputes

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Injunctions - 1928 - 746 pages
...PROPERTY Blackstone defined property : The sole and despotic dominion which otie claims and exorcises over the external things of the world in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the world. Blackstone recognized property as something tangible and transferable — something more than...
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Defining and Limiting the Jurisdiction of Courts Sitting in Equity: Hearing ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1930 - 44 pages
...definitions then defined property, in substance, as follows : " 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.) And— "A right imparting to the owner of power of indefinite user, capable of...
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Defining and Limiting the Jurisdiction of Courts Sitting in Equity: Hearing ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Courts - 1937 - 196 pages
...definitions then defined property, in substance, as follows: • " 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. ) And— • "A right imparting to the owner of power of indefinite user, capable...
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In Search of the True West: Culture, Economics, and Problems of Russian ...

Esther Kingston-Mann - History - 1998 - 316 pages
...work that inspired the 1767 "Instruction" of Russia's Catherine the Great): "There is nothing which so strikes the imagination and engages the affections...the right of any other individual in the universe." According to Blackstone, the right to exclude others encouraged innovation as well. In his words, "who...
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The Ethics of Homelessness: Philosophical Perspectives

G. John M. Abbarno - Philosophy - 1999 - 280 pages
...(Comm. I, 64).6 The laws of real property include the protection of the home wherein the law establishes 'that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe."10 Those laws, being in general a part of the common law of England, are established, as...
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