 | William Blackstone, Alexander Leith, James Frederick Smith - Law - 1880 - 650 pages
...whatever airy metaphysical notions may have been started by fanciful writers upon this subject. The earth, therefore, and all things therein, are the general property of all mankind, exclusive of other beings, from the immediate gift of the Creator. And, while the earth continued bare... | |
 | James Booth Converse - Single tax - 1888 - 260 pages
...whatever airy, metaphysical'notions may have been started by fanciful writers upon the subject. The earth, therefore, and all things therein are the general property of all mankind, exclusive of other beings, from the immediate gift of the Creator. And while the earth continued bare... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1889 - 566 pages
...whatever metaphysical notions may have been started by fanciful writers upon this subject. The earth, therefore, and all things therein, are the general property of all mankind, exclusive of other beings, from the immediate gift of the Creator." that the courts could not take... | |
 | A. Fraser Hill - Land tenure - 1894 - 236 pages
...earth." This is the only true and solid foundation of man's dominion over external things. The earth, therefore, and all things therein, are the general property of all mankind." " By the law of nature and reason, he who first began to use it acquired therein a kind of transient... | |
 | United States - 1897 - 928 pages
...whatever airy, metaphysical notions may have been started by fanciful writers upon the subject. The earth, therefore, and all things therein are the general property of all mankind, exclusive of all other beings, from the immediate gift of the Creator. — Blackstone' 's "Commentaries,"... | |
 | John Rankin Rogers - Land tenure - 1900 - 46 pages
...whatever airy, metaphysical notions may have been started by fanciful writers upon the subject. The earth, therefore, and all things therein are the general property of all mankind, exclusive of all other beings, from the immediate gift of the Creator."— BLACKSTONE'S COMMENTARIES,... | |
 | Charles Erehart Chadman - Law - 1912 - 624 pages
...whatever airy metaphysical notions may have been started by fanciful writers upon this subject. The earth, therefore, and all things therein, are the general property of all mankind, exclusive of other beings, from the immediate gift of the Creator. And, while the earth continued bare... | |
 | Frederic Mathews - Social problems - 1914 - 706 pages
...whatever airy metaphysical notions may have been started by fanciful writers upon this subject. The earth, therefore, and all things therein, are the general property of all mankind, exclusive of other beings, from the immediate gift of the Creator." Thus, in seeking the ultimate foundations... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1921 - 506 pages
...airy, metaphysical notions may have been started by fanciful writers upon this subject. The earth, therefore, and all things therein, are the general property of all mankind, exclusive of other beings, from the immediate gift of the Creator. And while the earth continued bare... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance - Finance, Public - 1936 - 996 pages
...entire land of this Nation should belong to the people living here. As Blackstone said: The earth, therefore, and all things therein are the general property of all mankind from the immediate gift of the Creator. And as Herbert Spencer said: The world is God's bequest to... | |
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The earth, therefore, and all things therein, are the general property of all mankind, exclusive of other beings, from the immediate gift of the Creator. 
