Commentaries
on the
Laws of England.
Book the second.
Of the RIGHTS of THINGS.
Chapter the first.
Of PROPERTY, in general.
THE former book of theſe commentaries having treated at large of the jura perſonarum, or ſuch rights and duties as are annexed to the perſons of men, the objects of our enquiry in this ſecond book will be the jura rerum, or, thoſe rights which a man may acquire in and to ſuch external things as are unconnected with his perſon. Theſe are what the writers on natural law ſtile the rights of dominion, or property, concerning the nature and original of which I ſhall firſt premiſe a few obſervations, before I proceed to diſtribute and conſider it's ſeveral objects.
Vol. II.
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