 | Timothy Walker - Law - 1882 - 850 pages
...incorporeal hereditament*. By the right of property, I understand, in the language of Blackstone, " that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...external things of the world, in total exclusion of every other individual." (a) This is the definition of exclusive ownership, and it has been a question... | |
 | American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1883 - 1094 pages
...Justinian, there is no definition of the right of property or dominion, while Blackstone describes it to be "that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...the right of any other individual in the universe." (Vol. i., p. 2.) This smacks so strongly of Pothier, that one is tempted to suspect the source whence... | |
 | Law - 1883 - 908 pages
...control or diminution, save only by the laws of the land." 1 Bl. Com. 133. Again, he defines it as " that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...the right of any other individual in the universe :" Book II., p. 2. Again on page 15 of Book II., lie says that " the objects of dominion or property... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 760 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... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1888 - 958 pages
...Anglo-Saxon speech and custom. Blackstone is its great exponent. The right of property, he says, is " that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...the right of any other individual in the universe." * But " there is no foundation in nature or in natural law why a set of words upon parchment should... | |
 | John C. Devereux - Law - 1891 - 432 pages
...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...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.... | |
 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1893 - 558 pages
...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 tilings of the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe. And... | |
 | George A. Richardson - Social history - 1896 - 472 pages
...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...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... | |
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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,... 
