The Principles of the Law of Real and Personal Property: Being the Second Book of Blackstone's Commentaries, Incorporating the Alterations Down to the Present Time |
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... continued bare of inhabi- tants , it is reasonable to suppose that all was in common among them , and that every one took from the public stock to his own use such things as his immediate neces- sities required . These general notions ...
... continued bare of inhabi- tants , it is reasonable to suppose that all was in common among them , and that every one took from the public stock to his own use such things as his immediate neces- sities required . These general notions ...
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... continued for the same time only that the act of possession lasted . Thus the ground was in common , and no part of it was the permanent property of any man in particular ; yet whoever was in the occupation of any determined spot of it ...
... continued for the same time only that the act of possession lasted . Thus the ground was in common , and no part of it was the permanent property of any man in particular ; yet whoever was in the occupation of any determined spot of it ...
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... continued for months together without any sensible interruption , and at length by usage ripen into an established right ; but prin- cipally because few of them could be fit for use , till improved and meliorated by the bodily labour of ...
... continued for months together without any sensible interruption , and at length by usage ripen into an established right ; but prin- cipally because few of them could be fit for use , till improved and meliorated by the bodily labour of ...
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... earliest ages ; and which , Tacitus informs us , continued among the Germans till the decline e Gen. xxi . 30 . f Gen. xxvi . 15 , 18 , & c . [ 7 ] of the Roman Empire . We have CHAP . I. ] 5 OF PROPERTY IN GENERAL .
... earliest ages ; and which , Tacitus informs us , continued among the Germans till the decline e Gen. xxi . 30 . f Gen. xxvi . 15 , 18 , & c . [ 7 ] of the Roman Empire . We have CHAP . I. ] 5 OF PROPERTY IN GENERAL .
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... continued a forest , and men have been mere animals of prey ; which , according to some philosophers , is the genuine state of nature . Whereas now ( so gra- [ 8 ] ciously has Providence interwoven our duty and our happiness together ) ...
... continued a forest , and men have been mere animals of prey ; which , according to some philosophers , is the genuine state of nature . Whereas now ( so gra- [ 8 ] ciously has Providence interwoven our duty and our happiness together ) ...
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Popular passages
Page 235 - December, 1833, no person shall make an entry or distress, or bring an action to recover any land or rent, but within twenty years next after the time at which the right to make such entry or distress or to bring such action shall have first accrued to some person through whom he claims...
Page 38 - Franchise and liberty are used as synonymous terms ; and their definition is (u) a royal privilege, or branch of the king's prerogative, subsisting in the hands of a subject Being therefore derived from the crown, they must arise from the king's grant ; or in some cases may be held by prescription, which, as has been frequently said, presupposes a grant.
Page 1 - They are not : 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 of the right of any other individual in the universe.
Page 509 - French bailler, to deliver, is a delivery of goods in trust, upon a contract expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed on the part of the bailee.
Page 432 - That no will shall be valid unless it shall be in writing and executed in manner herein-after mentioned ; (that is to say,) it shall be signed at the foot or end thereof by the testator, or by some other person in his presence and by his direction...
Page 2 - ... there is no foundation in nature or in natural law, why a set of words upon parchment should convey the dominion of land...
Page 365 - Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things ; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbour : and this was a testimony in Israel.
Page 589 - TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said tract of land and all and singular other the premises hereby granted and released and every part and parcel thereof with their and every of their appurtenances...
Page 6 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 386 - If this be all, the bond is called a single one, simplex obligatio ; but there is generally a condition added, that if the obligor does some particular act, the obligation shall be void, or else shall remain in full force: as, payment of rent; performance of covenants in a deed ; or repayment of a principal...