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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... "
Defining and Limiting the Jurisdiction of Courts Sitting in Equity: Hearing ... - Page 12
by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1930 - 36 pages
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Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child Or the Dog?

Gary Francione - 2010 - 276 pages
...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 of the right of any other individual in the universe."15 In discussing the philosophical foundation of the right of property, Blackstone rejected...
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Law 101: Everything You Need to Know about the American Legal System

Jay M. Feinman - 2000 - 380 pages
...eighteenth-century treatise on English law called "sole and despotic dominion . . . over . . . things ... in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe." Ownership, or dominion, is the ability to control the use of the property. Suzie can pretend that her...
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Private and Common Property, Volume 3

Richard Allen Epstein - 2000 - 410 pages
...that pretiy close to Blackstone's definition of property? D. Yes, Blackstone refers to property as 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,"4...
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Romancing the Shadow: Poe and Race

J. Gerald Kennedy, Liliane Weissberg - 2001 - 314 pages
...embrace of property as 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" (2:2), 15 we find a key not only to Poe's monomaniacal narrators but also, and more important, to his...
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The Lost World of Classical Legal Thought: Law and Ideology in America, 1886 ...

William M. Wiecek - 2001 - 300 pages
...Blackstone defined 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."221 His view stressed two dominant characteristics of property: the object was physical things,...
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New Essays in the Legal and Political Theory of Property

Stephen R. Munzer - 2001 - 232 pages
...Blackstone's invocation 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."3** Blackstone, however, also argued that, in the state of nature, someone who first 37 See...
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Property Rights: From Magna Carta to the Fourteenth Amendment

Bernard H. Siegan - 356 pages
...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 precise in referring to the right of property as the third absolute right...
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Romancing the Shadow: Poe and Race

J. Gerald Kennedy, Liliane Weissberg - 2001 - 314 pages
...the 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 exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of the tight of any other individual in the universe"...
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Distant Sovereignty: National Imperialism and the Origins of British India

Sudipta Sen - 2002 - 252 pages
...William Blackstone as “that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of...right of any other individual in the universe.” 9 ' Given this perception of native society, it is not difficult to see why there was such a drive...
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Bioethics and Moral Content: National Traditions of Health Care Morality ...

H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr., L.M. Rasmussen - 2002 - 315 pages
...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 of...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...
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