 | J. Gerald Kennedy, Liliane Weissberg - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 311 pages
...Great House of Usher ultimately falls. If we take Blackstone's stunning embrace of property as the "sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and...the right of any other individual in the universe" (2:2), 15 we find a key not only to Poe's monomaniacal narrators but also, and more important, to his... | |
 | Stephen R. Munzer - Business & Economics - 2001 - 232 pages
...human autonomy becomes private property's supreme virtue. Often cited is Blackstone's invocation of "that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe."3** Blackstone, however, also argued that, in the state of nature, someone who first 37 See... | |
 | William M. Wiecek - History - 2001 - 300 pages
...developing commercial and industrial economy of Jacksonian America. Blackstone defined property as "that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe."221 His view stressed two dominant characteristics of property: the object was physical things,... | |
 | J. Gerald Kennedy, Liliane Weissberg - African Americans in literature - 2001 - 314 pages
...Great House of Usher ultimately falls. If we take Blackstone's stunning embrace of property as the "sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and...external things of the world, in total exclusion of the tight of any other individual in the universe" (2:2),^ we tind a key not only to Poe's monomaniacal... | |
 | Bernard H. Siegan - Law - 356 pages
...is "that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things in the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe."177 He was more precise in referring to the right of property as the third absolute right... | |
 | H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr., L.M. Rasmussen - Philosophy - 2002 - 315 pages
...currently no explanations (2001, p. 814). Blackstone, reflecting on the common law of England, argued: "There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination...the right of any other individual in the universe (1803, book 2, p. 1). The nature of property rights, their character, scope, and form, was drawn from... | |
 | Sudipta Sen - Great Britain - 2002 - 252 pages
...commonly accepted definition of property rights in this era was summed up by William Blackstone as “that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...right of any other individual in the universe.” 9 ' Given this perception of native society, it is not difficult to see why there was such a drive... | |
 | Robert Cooter - Law - 2002 - 440 pages
...civil rights to the people who enjoy them. CHAPTER I2 Property Rights [T]he right of property [is]. . . that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...the right of any other individual in the universe. — Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England1 In the African tribe called the Barotse, "[P]roperty... | |
 | Meir Dan-Cohen - Philosophy - 2009 - 320 pages
...sources cited in note 22. 32. See for example Blackstone's classical definition of ownership as "the sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and...the right of any other individual in the universe." William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, 11th ed. (London: T. Cadell, 1791), 2:2. 33.... | |
 | Sudipta Sen - Great Britain - 2002 - 252 pages
...commonly accepted definition of property rights in this era was summed up by William Blackstone as "that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe."91 Given this perception of native society, it is not difficult to see why there was such... | |
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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,... 
