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" Thus the grass my horse has bit; the turfs my servant has cut; and the ore I have digged in any place, where I have a right to them in common with others, become my property, without the assignation or consent of any body. The labour that was mine, removing... "
Is Copyright Perpetual?: An Examination of the Origin and Nature of Literary ... - Page 19
by Eaton Sylvester Drone - 1875 - 23 pages
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A Discourse on Property: John Locke and His Adversaries

James Tully - Business & Economics - 1982 - 216 pages
...without the consent of other commoners, consists in an example drawn from the English Common (2.28): Thus the Grass my Horse has bit; the Turfs my Servant has cut; and the Ore I have digg'd in any place where I have a right to them in common with others, become my Property, without...
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Deep Sea Mining and the Law of the Sea

Alexandra Merlé Post - Technology & Engineering - 1983 - 400 pages
...be exchanged.29 The condition of property as the outcome of 'every man' is also qualified by Locke: The grass my horse has bit, the turfs my servant has cut, and the ore I have digged . . . become my property without the assignation or consent of anybody. The labor that was mine . ....
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On Genes, Gods and Tyrants: The Biological Causation of Morality

Camilo Cela-Conde, Penelope Lock - Philosophy - 1987 - 224 pages
...extremely suspicious. When for example he enumerates the cases that lead to private property, he says "Thus the Grass my Horse has bit; the Turfs my Servant has cut; and the Ore I have digg'd in any place where I have a right to them in common with others, become my Property, without...
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God the Economist: The Doctrine of God and Political Economy

M. Douglas Meeks - Religion - 276 pages
...the taking of this or that part does not depend on the express consent of all of the commoners. Thus, the grass my horse has bit, the turfs my servant has cut, and the one I have digged in any place, where I have a right to them in common with others, become my property...
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Democracy Against Capitalism: Renewing Historical Materialism

Ellen Meiksins Wood - Political Science - 1995 - 318 pages
...the taking of this or that part, does not depend on the express consent of all the Commoners. Thus the Grass my Horse has bit; the Turfs my Servant has cut; and the Ore I have digg'd in any place where I have a right to them in common with others, become my Property, without...
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Epistolary Bodies: Gender and Genre in the Eighteenth-Century Republic of ...

Elizabeth Cook - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 252 pages
...prosthesis. In a passage summarizing how labor makes property out of nonproperty, he writes, "Thus the grass my horse has bit; the turfs my servant has...property without the assignation or consent of anybody." 32 The parallelism finesses a troubling question about the extension of agency through servitude, for...
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Privatization: Critical Perspectives on the World Economy, Volume 1

George K. Yarrow, Piotr Jasiński - Business & Economics - 1996 - 522 pages
...the taking of this or that part, does not depend on the express consent of all the commoners. Thus the grass my horse has bit; the turfs my servant has...my property, without the assignation or consent of any body. The labour that was mine, removing them out of that common state they were in, hath fixed...
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Modern Political Thought: Readings from Machiavelli to Nietzsche

David Wootton - Political Science - 1996 - 964 pages
...And the taking of this or that part does not depend on the express consent of all the commoners. Thus ple. So that i any body. The labour that was mine, removing them out of that common state they were in, hath fixed...
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A Textual Introduction To Social and Political Theory

Richard Paul Bellamy, Angus C. Ross - Philosophy - 1996 - 356 pages
...the taking of this or that part, does not depend on the express consent of all the Commoners. Thus the Grass my Horse has bit; the Turfs my Servant has cut; and the Ore I have digg'd in any place where I have a right to them in common with others, become my Property, without...
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Thinking about the Environment: Readings on Politics, Property, and the ...

Matthew Alan Cahn, Rory O'Brien - Literary Collections - 1996 - 316 pages
...the taking of this or that part, does not depend on the express consent of all the Commoners. Thus the Grass my Horse has bit; the Turfs my Servant has cut; and the Ore I have digg'd in any place where I have a right to them in common with others, become my Property, without...
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