...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...

...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,...

...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...

...rights. Blackstone confined his definition to material things. The right of property, he wrote, 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...

...definition to the word than is commonly done today: The term in its particular application means "that dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in exclusion of every other individual." In its larger and juster meaning, it embraces every thing to...

...Madison wrote in the same strain: Property ... in its particular application means that domination which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in exclusion of every other individual. In its larger and juster meaning, it embraces everything to which...

...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...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...

...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...

...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....

...other matters as he may direct. There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination as the sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and...total exclusion of the right of any other individual. However, the most effectual way of abandoning property is by the death of the owner, when both the...