 | Ontario. High Court of Justice - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 840 pages
...originally gained ; every man seizing to his own continued use such spots of ground as he found most agreeable to his own convenience, provided he found them unoccupied by any one else :" Blackstone (by Kerr, 4th ed.) vol. ii. p. 74. " Occupancy is the taking possession of other... | |
 | James Shaw Sinclair - Forms (Law) - 1891 - 430 pages
...originally gained; every man seized to his own continued use such spots of ground as he found most agreeable to his own convenience, provided he found them unoccupied by any one else: " Blackstone, (by Kerr, 4th Ed ) Vol. II., p. 74. " Occupancy is the taking possession of other... | |
 | John C. Devereux - Law - 1891 - 432 pages
...originally gained ; every man seizing to his own continued use such spots of ground as he found most agreeable to his own convenience, provided he found them unoccupied by any one else. 15. How long continues the property in land thus acquired by occupancy ? — 9. It remains in... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1902 - 540 pages
...originally gained; every man seizing to his own con*9] tinned *use such spots of ground as he found most agreeable to his own convenience, provided he found them unoccupied by any one else. (9) Property, both in lands and movables, being thus originally acquired by the first taker,... | |
 | Charles Erehart Chadman - Law - 1912 - 624 pages
...originally gained ; every man seizing to his own continued *use such spots of [*9] ground as he found most agreeable to his own convenience, provided he found them unoccupied by any one else. Property, both in lands and movables, being thus originally acquired by the first taker, which... | |
 | 1998 - 394 pages
...right of occupancy: "every man seising to his own continued use such spots of ground as he found most agreeable to his own convenience, provided he found them unoccupied by any one else."26 In terms of the technical categories of the land law Blackstone, as we have seen, had in mind... | |
 | Elihu Lauterpacht, C. J. Greenwood, A. G. Oppenheimer - Law - 1999 - 800 pages
...which the title was in fact originally gained; every man seizing such spots of ground as he found most agreeable to his own convenience, provided he found them unoccupied by any one else" (emphasis added). It was only by fastening on the notion that a settled colony was terra nullius... | |
 | Stephen M. Feldman - Law - 2000 - 288 pages
...Blackstone concluded: "Property, both in land and moveables, being thus originally acquired by the first taker, which taking amounts to a declaration that he intends to appropriate the thing to his own use, it remains in him, by the principles of universal law, till such time as he does some other act... | |
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Property, both in lands and movables, being thus originally acquired by the first taker, which taking amounts to a declaration that he intends to appropriate the thing to his own use... 
