 | Joseph Harding Underwood - 1907 - 234 pages
...used in an absolute sense is seen in the common definitions. Blackstone says : 2 " Private property is the sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...external things of the world in total exclusion of any one else in the universe." Suppose for a moment that " sole and despotic dominion " and 1 Giddings,... | |
 | Leslie Jay Tompkins - 1908 - 1188 pages
...right of property as " that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world in total exclusion of...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... | |
 | Edward Sherwood Mead - 1909 - 510 pages
...defined by Blackstone as "that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe."1 The i Cooley's Blackstone, 3d Ed., Vol. I, Book II, p. 1. origin of private property is... | |
 | David Kemper Watson - 1910 - 1074 pages
...kind of title. 78 Also, "the sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world in total exclusion of...the right of any other individual in the universe." 79 It is the "free use and enjoyment by a person of all his acquisitions, without any control or diminution,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Lands - 1910 - 74 pages
...the right of property; of that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of...the right of any other individual in the universe." The desire of the poor and the homeless to acquire real property, as manifested in various ways, is... | |
 | David Kemper Watson - 1910 - 1140 pages
...definitions have been given of this term. As applied to lands, it means every kind of title.78 Also, "the sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe."78... | |
 | 1911 - 932 pages
...successors. (Austin, Jurisprudence.) "The sole and despotic dominion which one claims and exercises over the external things of the world in total exclusion of the right of any individual in the world. (Blackstone.) "It will be seen that property is products of nature or of labor,... | |
 | New York (State). Public Service Commission. Second District - 1911 - 808 pages
...has an exchangeable value. 2 1'lackstone's Commentaries, page 2, it is said: The right of property a the sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe.... | |
 | Charles Erehart Chadman - 1912 - 624 pages
...right of property ; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of...the right of any other individual in the universe. And yet there are very few that will give themselves the trouble to consider the original and foundation... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1912 - 464 pages
...definition of property: The sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world in total exclusion of...the right of any other individual in the universe; The right to possess, use, enjoy, and dispose of a thing. On page 261 of the English and American Encyclopedia... | |
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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} in total exclusion... 
