 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - Christian socialism - 1840 - 104 pages
...had convinced him, that one generation of men has no power to bind another. " I set out," he says, " on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident,...occupied by any individual ceases to be his, when he himself ceases to be, and reverts to society.•'•' * Bentham says ; " Property and law are born... | |
 | Charles Grandison Thomas - Inheritance and succession - 1841 - 60 pages
...authority to the same point with those cited, who says, " the earth belongs, in usufruct, to the living. The dead have neither powers nor rights over it. The...occupied by any individual ceases to be his, when he himself ceases to be, and reverts to society." Bentham's dictum swells the list, without adding... | |
 | American literature - 1840 - 532 pages
...had convinced him, that one generation of men has no power to bind another. " I set out," he says, " on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the Jiving ; that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it. The portion occupied by any individual... | |
 | Noah Webster - English language - 1843 - 392 pages
...Ill, pp. 27, 426, and Vol. IV, pp. 196, 275, 396.) The general principle adopted by Mr. Jefferson is that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living ; that the dead have neither power nor rights over it ; that no man can by natural right oblige the lands he occupied, or the persons... | |
 | George Lewis Prentiss - Lawyers - 1855 - 598 pages
...question to my mind ; and that no such obligation can be so transmitted, I think very capable of proof. I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufmct to the living; that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it. The portion occupied by... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 916 pages
...question to my mind ; and that no such obligation can be so transmitted, I think very capable of proof. I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident,...portion occupied by any individual ceases to be his when himFclf ceases to be, and reverts to the society. If the society has formed no rules for the appropriation... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 758 pages
...question to my mind; and that no such obligation can be so transmitted, I think very capable of proof. I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belong* in vxufruct to the living; that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it. The portion... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - United States - 1871 - 758 pages
...question to my mind ; and that no such obligation can be so transmitted, I think very capable of proof. I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident,...the society. If the society has formed no rules for ihe appropriation of its lands in severally, it will be taken by the first occupants, and these will... | |
 | James Daniel Lynch - Judges - 1881 - 570 pages
...question to my mind ; and that no such obligation can be so transmitted, I think very capable of proof. I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to tlie living ; that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it. The portion occupied by any individual... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - Presidents - 1883 - 372 pages
...which contracts it ! /The daring and original logician starts with the " self-evident " proposition that " the earth belongs in usufruct to the living...the dead have neither powers nor rights over it." But, he says, if a debt survives the generation which contracts it, then the subsequent generation... | |
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I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living ; that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it. 
