...statement. The great lawyer, Sir William Blackstone, says — Accurately and strictly speaking, there is no foundation in nature or in natural law why a set of words on parchment should convey the dominion of land. Allodial (absolute) property no subject in England...

...and testament of the dying owner; not caring to reflect that (accurately and strictly speaking) there is no foundation in nature or in natural law why a set of words upon parchment should convey the domain of land ; why the son should have a right to exclude his fellow creatures from a determinate...

...greatest authority in English law (Blackstone) says: " There is no foundation in nature or in natural law, why the son should have the right to exclude his fellow creatures from a determinate spot of land, because his father had done so before him, or why the occupier of a particular field, or the...

...testament of the dying owner ; not caring to reflect that (accurately and strictly speaking) there is no foundation in nature or in natural law, why...convey the dominion of land; why the son should have a right to exclude his fellow creatures from a determinate spot of ground, because his father had done...

...of the world in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe." * But "there is no foundation in nature or in natural law why a...upon parchment should convey the dominion of land." "The earth, therefore, and all * Principles of Political Economy, book ii, c. i, § 2. things therein,...

...him.' The same reasoning may be applied to land titles with equal force. Blackstone admits that 'there is no foundation in nature, or in natural law, why...upon parchment should convey the dominion of land.' ' Whilst another man has no land,' says Emerson, 'my title to mine, your title to yours, is at once...

...expounder of the common law [Blackstone] in his "Commentaries" that "there is no foundation in nature or natural law why a set of words upon parchment should convey the dominion of land." The use and occupancy alone give to man, in the language of the "Commentaries," "an exclusive right...

...and testament of the dying owner; not caring to reflect that, accurately and strictly speaking, there is no foundation in nature or in natural law why a...have the right to exclude his fellow creatures from a determined spot of ground because his father had done so before him; or why the occupier of a particular...

...and testament of the dying owner; not caring to reflect that (accurately and strictly speaking) there is no foundation, in nature or in natural law, why...convey the dominion of land: why the son should have a right to exclude his fellow-creatures from a determinate spot of ground, because his father had done...

...him." The same reasoning may be applied to land titles with equal force. Blackstone admits that "there is no foundation in nature, or in natural law, why...upon parchment should convey the dominion of land." "Whilst another man has no land," says Emerson, "my title to mine, your title to yours, is at once...