 | Jeremy Bentham - 1838 - 306 pages
...which is incorporated with my own substance may belong to another, to whom I must account for its use. The idea of property consists in an established expectation — in the persuasion of power to derive certain advantages from the object, according to the nature of the case. But this expectation,... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - Civil law - 1840 - 286 pages
...which is incorporated into my very body, may belong to another, to whom I am bound to account for it. The idea of property consists in an established expectation...expectation, this persuasion, can only be the work of law. I cannot count upon the enjoyment of that which I regard as mine, except through the promise of... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - Literary Criticism - 1853 - 308 pages
...consisting, not in any mere circumstances of physical control, — which may be present or absent, — but in the persuasion of being able to draw such or such an advantage from the thing in question, according to its nature. Now, this idea of property—this expectation — is just as... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - Civil law - 1864 - 528 pages
...which is incorporated into my very body may belong to another, to whom I am bound to account for it. The idea of property consists in an established expectation...case. Now this expectation, this persuasion, can only bo the work of law. I cannot count upon the enjoyment of that which I rcgard'as mine, except through... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Taxation - 1886 - 1100 pages
...Pol. Econ., b. v, ch. 3, § 3. 2 " The idea of property consists in an established expectation ; hi the persuasion of being able to draw such or such...case. Now this expectation, this persuasion, can only bo the work of the law. I cannot count upon the enjoyment of that which I regard as mine, except through... | |
 | New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives - 1894 - 748 pages
...constitutes property. It is not material ; it is metaphysical ; it is a mere conception of the mind. . . . " The idea of property consists in an established expectation — in the persuasion — of being ablo to draw such or such an advantage from the thing possessed, according to the nature of the case.... | |
 | Westel Woodbury Willoughby - Justice - 1900 - 414 pages
...presents his position so fully that little comment will be necessary. " The idea of property," he says, "consists in an established expectation; in the persuasion...expectation, this persuasion, can only be the work of law. I cannot count upon the enjoyment of that which I regard as mine, except through the promise of... | |
 | James Lawrence Nichols - United States - 1904 - 640 pages
...system of educaSincc then every power of the civilized world has adopted some system of public schools. What little objection has been made to taxation for...law. I cannot count upon the enjoyment of that which 1 regard as mine, except through the promise of the -law which guarantees it to me. Property and law... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - Civil law - 1908 - 500 pages
...which is incorporated into my very body may belong to another, to whom I am bound to account for it. The idea of property consists in an established expectation...expectation, this persuasion, can only be the work of law. I cannot count upon the enjoyment of that which I regard as mine, except through the promise of... | |
 | Jan Hendrik Jacobus Antonie Greyvenstein - Utilitarianism - 1911 - 228 pages
...het voorwerp oazer ') Theory of Legislation, p. 111. 132 oezitting „The idea of property consiste in an established expectation, in the persuasion of...thing possessed, according to the nature of the case". x) De zekerheid is in wezen niets anders dan de handhaving van de verwachtingen, die gegrond zijn op... | |
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The idea of property consists in an established expectation ; in the persuasion of being able to draw such or such an advantage from the thing possessed, according to the nature of the case. 
