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  • There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe. And yet there are very few, that will give themselves the trouble to consider the original and foundation of this right.

    William Blackstone (2016). “The Oxford Edition of Blackstone's: Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book II: Of the Rights of Things”, p.57, Oxford University Press
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