 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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"... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Robert Cooter - 2002 - 440 pages
...right of property [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. — Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England1 In the African tribe called the Barotse, "[P]roperty... | |
 | Carl Wellman - 2002 - 424 pages
...Blackstone's famous definition of ownership as 'that sole and despotic dominion which one man has over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe.'16 And for the second category, we may consider the definition proposed in the German Civil... | |
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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... 
