 | Voyages and travels - 1767 - 542 pages
...refpe&s fubjecT: to the Englifh laws. Plantations, or colonies in diftant countries, are either fuch where the lands are claimed by right of occupancy only, by finding them defart and uncultivated, and peopling them from the mother country ; or where, when already cultivated,... | |
 | William Blackstone - Great Britain - 1771 - 506 pages
...refpects fubject to the Englifh laws. Plantations, or colonies in diftant countries, are either fuch where the lands are claimed by right of occupancy only, by finding them defart and uncultivated, and peopling them from the mother country ; or where, when already cultivated,'... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1791 - 518 pages
...refpecl: fubjecl: to theEnglifh laws. Plantations or colonies, in diftant countries, are either fuch where the lands are claimed by right of occupancy only, by finding them defart and uncultivated, and peopling them from the mother country ; or where, when already cultivated,... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 434 pages
...ob- Colour. fervations. —— v— " Plantations, or colonies in diftant countries, are either fuch where the lands are claimed by right of occupancy only, by finding them defert and uncultivated, and peopling them from the mother-country ; or where, when already cultivated,... | |
 | James Wilson, Bird Wilson - Law - 1804 - 456 pages
...islands, (Jersey, &c.) our more distant plantations in America and elsewhere are also, in some respects, subject to the English laws. Plantations, or colonies...countries, are either such where the lands are claimed inright of occupancy only, by finding them desart and uncultivated^ and peopling them from the mother... | |
 | William Roberts - Evidence (Law) - 1807 - 522 pages
...questions, 1 have transcribed a page from the Commentaries of Sir William Blackstone on the subject. " Plantations or colonies in distant countries, are...claimed by right of occupancy only, by finding them ilcsart and uncultivated, and peopling them from the mothi r country ; or where, when already cultivated,... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 686 pages
...adjacent islands, our more distant plantations in America, and elsewhere, are also in some respect subject to the English laws. Plantations or colonies,...distant countries, are either such where the lands [107] are claimed by right of occupancy only by finding them desert and uncultivated, and peopling... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 878 pages
...countries are Colony. [ 272 ] COL Colony, either such where the lands are claimed by right of ~~v ' ' occupancy only, by finding them desert and uncultivated, and peopling them from the mother-country ; or where, when already cultivated, they have either been gained by conquest, or ceded... | |
 | William Hough - 1825 - 1028 pages
...adjacent islands (4), our more distant plantations in America, and elsewhere, are also, in some respect, subject to the English laws. Plantations or colonies,...uncultivated, and peopling them from the mother country (5) ; or where, when already cultivated, they have been either gained by conquest, or (4) " Jersey,... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1825 - 572 pages
...adjacent islands, our more distant plantations in America and elsewhere, are also in some respects subject to the English laws. Plantations or colonies,...claimed by right of occupancy only, by finding them desart and • uncultivated, and peopling them from the mother-country ; or where, when already cultivated,... | |
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Plantations or colonies, in distant countries, are either such where the lands are claimed by right of occupancy only, — by finding them desert and uncultivated, and peopling them from the mother country ; or where, when already cultivated, they have... 
