...Great House of Usher ultimately falls. If we take Blackstone's stunning embrace of property as the "sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and...external things of the world, in total exclusion of the tight of any other individual in the universe" (2:2),^ we tind a key not only to Poe's monomaniacal...

...rights. Blackstone confined his definition to material things. The right of property, he wrote, is "that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things in the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe."177 He was more...

...definition to the word than is commonly done today: The term in its particular application means "that dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in exclusion of every other individual." In its larger and juster meaning, it embraces every thing to...

...Madison wrote in the same strain: Property ... in its particular application means that domination which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in exclusion of every other individual. In its larger and juster meaning, it embraces everything to which...

...currently no explanations (2001, p. 814). Blackstone, reflecting on the common law of England, argued: "There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination...the right of any other individual in the universe (1803, book 2, p. 1). The nature of property rights, their character, scope, and form, was drawn from...

...civil rights to the people who enjoy them. CHAPTER I2 Property Rights [T]he right of property [is]. . . that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims...the right of any other individual in the universe. — Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England1 In the African tribe called the Barotse, "[P]roperty...

...sources cited in note 22. 32. See for example Blackstone's classical definition of ownership as "the sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and...the right of any other individual in the universe." William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, 11th ed. (London: T. Cadell, 1791), 2:2. 33....

...other matters as he may direct. There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination as the sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and...total exclusion of the right of any other individual. However, the most effectual way of abandoning property is by the death of the owner, when both the...

...definition of property rights in this era was summed up by William Blackstone as "that sole and drspatit dominion which one man claims and exercises over the...exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe."9' Given this perception of native sociery, it is not difficult to see why there was such...

...right' vested in individuals 'by the immutable laws of nature'.8 Famously, he defined property as 'the sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and...the world, in total exclusion of the right of any individual in the universe'.9 But this focus on the 'absolute' nature of property can mislead.10 As...