...effects of enclosure, and the local hatred of the landed classes that was to follow: The law arrests the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But leaves the greater rascal loose, Who steals the common from the goose. It was this widespread enclosure...

...State, too, there exists a fundamental normativity as reflected in the notion of the The Law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common But lets the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the t1oase. common good or public interest. In actual judicial...

...organic, the inorganic, and the social universes. No mythology does less, no science can do more. 4. Ainu The law condemns the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common But leaves the greater felon loose Who steals the common from the goose. Eighteenth-century English Rhyme...

...some two dozen other words beginning with y (detailed in OED). The law doth punish man or woman That steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater felon loose That steals the common from the goose. —Anonymous folksong, 1764 konemo: shinbone. Gk khneue: leg...

...major ethical issue seems to be misplaced. The old English rhyme tells us The law locks up both man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common But...felon loose Who steals the common from the goose' I suggest that the individual who "steals" the information on a copyrighted map may be stealing the...

...includes, in the words of that anonymous poet particularly loved by teachers of 'A' level economic history, 'the man or woman who steals the goose from off the common, but leaves the greater villain loose who steals the common from the goose'. The criminal law excludes most...

...protests that the rich are treated better than the poor. The Common and the Goose The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common But leaves the greater felon loose Who steals the common from the goose. Anonymous Word bank common - common...

...law to break; This must be so but they endure Those who conspire to make the law. The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common' And geese will still a common lack Till they go and steal it back. English folk poem, circa 1764 INTRODUCTION...

...suspended sentences." It is, to be sure, an old story: "The law locks up both man and woman / Who steal the goose from off the common / But lets the greater...felon loose /Who steals the common from the goose." It has become an acutely current issue now, however, in part because for the first time a very substantial...

...factories. Discontent with these conditions was aptly expressed in a popular rhyme: The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common; But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose! Thus, we have reached the point...