| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 878 pages
...feeling of ownership ; the more so as, whQe the state's claim lay dormant, the possessor was, in fact, proprietor, and the land would thus be repeatedly...passing by regular sale from one occupier to another. The state, however, was often obliged to interfere with these occupiers of the public lands, and resume... | |
| William Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 876 pages
...tenants-at-wilL yet it is in human nature that a long undisturbed possession should give a feeling of ownership ; the more so as, while the state's claim lay dormant, the possessor was, in fact, proprietor, and the land would thus be repeatedly passing by regular sale from one occupier to another.... | |
| Cobden Club (London, England) - Agricultural laws and legislation - 1870 - 504 pages
...ownership, the more so, as while the State's claim lay dormant, the possessor was to all appearance the proprietor ; and the land would thus be repeatedly...passing by regular sale from one occupier to another." * * Arnold. 'Hist, of Rome,' vol. i. Dr. Arnold shows that the law of real The same talc which finds... | |
| Ephraim Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1870 - 852 pages
...tenants-at-will, yet it is in human nature that a long undisturbed possession should give a feeling of ownership ; the more so as, while the state's claim lay dormant, the possessor »as, in fact, proprietor, and the land would thus be repeatedly passing by regular sale from one occupier... | |
| Encyclopedias - 1880 - 890 pages
...tcnants-at-will, yol it is in humau nature that a long undisturbed possession should give a feeling of owner ship; the more so as, while the state's claim lay dormant, the possessor was, in fact, proprietor, and the land would thus be repeatedly passing by regular sale from one occupier to another."... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1883 - 840 pages
...more so a?, while the state's claim lay dormant, the possessor was, in fact, proprietor, and the hind would thus be repeatedly passing by regular sale from one occupier to another.' The state, however, was often obliged to interfere with these occupiers of the public lands, and resume... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1897 - 956 pages
...lenants-at-will, yet it is in human nature that a long undisturbed possession should give a feeling of ownership; the more so as, while the state's claim lay dormant, the possessor was. in fact, proprietor, and the land would thus be repeatedly passing by regular sale from one occupier to another.'... | |
| Harry Thurston Peck - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1898 - 1020 pages
...tenants-at-will, yet it is in human nature that a long undisturbed possession should give a feeling of ownership; the more so as, while the state's claim lay dormant, the possessor was, in fact, proprietor, and the land would thus be repeatedly passing by regular sale from one occupier to another."... | |
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