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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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Human Life and the Natural World: Readings in the History of Western Philosophy

Owen Goldin, Patricia Kilroe - Philosophy - 1997 - 276 pages
...And 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 ofthat common state they were in, hath fixed...
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Reflections on Commercial Life: An Anthology of Classic Texts from Plato to ...

Patrick Murray - Anthologies - 1997 - 510 pages
...And the taking of this or that part does not depend on the express consent of aD 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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The Human Rights Reader: Major Political Writings, Essays, Speeches, and ...

Micheline Ishay - Human rights - 1997 - 560 pages
...And 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...have a right to them in common with others, become my propLiberalism and) erty without the assignation or consent of anybody. The labor that was mine, removing...
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The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800

Robin Blackburn - History - 1997 - 624 pages
...products: ‘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.' 9 ° The vocation of the colonial planter gave substance to the English right to possess what Locke...
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Public and Private in Thought and Practice: Perspectives on a Grand Dichotomy

Jeff Weintraub, Krishan Kumar - Philosophy - 1997 - 408 pages
...Locke's famous argument that mixing labor with nature is the ground for legitimate appropriation. Thus the Grass my Horse has bit; the Turfs my Servant has cut [emphasis added]; and the Ore I have digg'd in any place where I have a right to them in common with...
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Intellectual Property Rights in Central and Eastern Europe: The Creation of ...

Elmar Altvater, Kazimiera Prunskienė - Business & Economics - 1998 - 200 pages
...merely the work of each individual. Typical for his time, he considers work in the social context: "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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The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800

Robin Blackburn - Slavery - 1998 - 612 pages
...Locke's famous definition of property could easily be extended to plantations and their products: '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.'*0 The...
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The Limits Of Privacy

Amitai Etzioni - Political Science - 2008 - 294 pages
...agreements, or other contextual factors: "Thus the grass my horse has bit, the turfe my servant has cot, and the ore I have digged in any place where I have a right to them in common with others," he states, "become my property without the assignation or consent of anybody" (135). In this way Locke...
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Modern Political Philosophy

Richard Hudelson - Philosophy - 1999 - 196 pages
...part of nature that one comes to have a right over that part of nature, Locke goes on to say, "Thus the Grass my Horse has bit; the Turfs my Servant has cut; and the Ore I have digg'd . . . become my Property."5 Now, leaving the horse aside, why is it that the turfs Locke's servant...
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Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays

Murray Newton Rothbard - Libertarianism - 2000 - 354 pages
...consent as that was necessary, man had starved, notwithstanding the plenty God had given him. . . . Thus, the grass my horse has bit, the turfs my servant has cut, and the ore I have digged in my place, where I have a right to them in common with others, become my property without the assignation...
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