Excerpt from Commentaries on the Laws of England, Vol. 2 Bu T when mankind increafed in number, craft, and ambi tion, it became necefiary to entertain conceptions of more per manent dominion and to appropriate to individuals not the 1m mediate zy' only, but the very fidfianoe of the thing to be ufed. Otherwife innumerable tumults muf'c have atifen, and the good order of the world. Been continually broken and difturbed, while a variety of perfons were firiving who {hould get the firf'c occu pation of the fame thing, or ...
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Excerpt from Commentaries on the Laws of England, Vol. 2 Bu T when mankind increafed in number, craft, and ambi tion, it became necefiary to entertain conceptions of more per manent dominion and to appropriate to individuals not the 1m mediate zy' only, but the very fidfianoe of the thing to be ufed. Otherwife innumerable tumults muf'c have atifen, and the good order of the world. Been continually broken and difturbed, while a variety of perfons were firiving who {hould get the firf'c occu pation of the fame thing, or difputing, which of them had ac tually gained it. AS human life alfo grew more and more refined, abundance of conveniences were devifed to render it more eafy, commodious, and agreeable 5 as, habitations for fhelter and fafety, and raiment for warmth and decency. But no man would be at the trouble to provide either, fo long as he had only an ufufruc tuary property in them, which was to ecafe the infiant that he quitted poffefiion -if, . As foon. As he walked out of his tent, or pulled off his garment, the next firanger who came'by would have a right to inhabit the one, and to wear the other. In the Cafe of habitations in particular, it was natural to obferve, that even the brute creation, to whom every thing elfe was in common, maintained a kind of permanent property in their dwellings, ef pecially for the prote�tion of their young; that the birds of the air had nefis, and the beafts of the field had caverns, the invafion of which they ef'teemed a very flagrant injufiice, and would fa crifice their lives to preferve them. Hence a property was foon eiiablifhed in every man's houfe and home-fiall; which. Feem to have been originally mere temporary huts or moveable cabins. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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