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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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In Search of the True West: Culture, Economics, and Problems of Russian ...

Esther Kingston-Mann - 1998 - 316 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." According to Blackstone, the right to exclude others encouraged innovation as well. In his words, "who...
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Commodity & Propriety: Competing Visions of Property in American Legal ...

Gregory S. Alexander - 1999 - 500 pages
...common-law ownership 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."32 It is no coincidence that Webster would articulate this conception in a metaphorical vocabulary...
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The Ethics of Homelessness: Philosophical Perspectives

G. John M. Abbarno - 1999 - 280 pages
...wherein the law establishes '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."10 Those laws, being in general a part of the common law of England, are established, as...
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Labor and the Constitution: Labor and property, privacy, discrimination, and ...

David L. Gregory - 1999 - 396 pages
...of a property owner 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."i8' Modem legal doctrine conceives of property quite differently.i82 Today, "property" is...
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Alone Together: Law and the Meanings of Marriage

Milton C. Regan Jr. - 1999 - 296 pages
...as Blackstone described it, "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."7 Blackstone's pronouncement was extravagant even in his own time as an accurate account...
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Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property

Kevin Hart - 1999
...he goes on to say, is '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 Having gone so far, he is moved to open the Bible, citing Genesis 1 : 28, which he calls...
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Property and the Constitution

Janet McLean - 1999 - 297 pages
...That syntax leads towards the selfish extremism of Blackstone's view of the right of property as:10 "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"....
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Entitlement: The Paradoxes of Property

Joseph William Singer - 2000 - 255 pages
...Blackstone, properly is "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 ' Since regulations are conceptualized as limits on the preexisting rights of the owner, property...
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Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child Or the Dog?

Gary Francione - 2010 - 272 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, Distinguished Professor of Law 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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