 | Jeremy Bentham - 1840 - 286 pages
...no such thing as natural property, and that it is entirely the work of law. Property is nothing but a basis of expectation; the expectation of deriving...consequence of the relation in which we stand towards it. There is no image, no painting, no visible trait, which can express the relation that constitutes property.... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1864 - 528 pages
...no such thing as natural property, and that it is entirely the work of law. Property is nothing but a basis of expectation ; the expectation of deriving certain advantages from a thing which we are 112 FRIìrCIPLES OF THE CTTTL CODE. paid to possess, in consequence of the relation in which we stand... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1871 - 498 pages
...shall see that there is no such thing as natural property, and that it is entirely the work of law. said to possess, in consequence of the relation in which we stand towards it. There is no image, no painting, no visible trait, which can express the relation that constitutes property.... | |
 | New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives - 1894 - 748 pages
...of attacks upon security, and he says, — " Property is nothing but a basis of expectation — tho expectation of deriving certain advantages from a...consequence of the relation in which we stand towards it. "There is no image, no painting, no visible trait, which can express the relation which constitutes... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1908 - 500 pages
...no such thing as natural property, and that it is entirely the work of law. Property is nothing but a basis of expectation ; the expectation of deriving...consequence of the relation in which we stand towards it. There is no image, no painting, no visible trait, which can express the relation that constitutes property.... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - 1911 - 524 pages
...and give effect to the expectation of a person. 'Property,' in the words of Bentham, 'is nothing but a basis of expectation; the expectation of deriving...consequence of the relation in which we stand towards it.'1 Similarly the logic of contract consists in the expectation raised in the minds of the parties... | |
 | Crawford Brough Macpherson - 1978 - 228 pages
...no such thing as natural property, and that it is entirely the work of law. Property is nothing but a basis of expectation; the expectation of deriving...consequence of the relation in which we stand towards it. There is no image, no painting, no visible trait, which can express the relation that constitutes property.... | |
 | Stephen R. Munzer - 1990 - 508 pages
...Adjudication," Revue Internationale de Philosophic, no. 141 (1982): 219-41, especially at 220-28. 194 but a basis of expectation; the expectation of deriving...consequence of the relation in which we stand towards it."5 Thus Bentham, unlike Hume, explicitly defines property in terms of expectations. The connection... | |
 | Peter Jensen Hill, Roger E. Meiners - 1998 - 372 pages
...is often said to state the relationship of an owner to the world over time. "Property is nothing but a basis of expectation; the expectation of deriving...consequence of the relation in which we stand towards it" (Bentham 1 882, 111). There are good practical reasons why it should assume this form. Environmental... | |
 | Jan Laitos - 1998 - 1317 pages
...an expectation that the interest was property. As Jeremy Bentham argued, "[p]roperty is nothing but a basis of expectation; the expectation of deriving...advantages from a thing which we are said to possess. . . ."21 A number of scholars have argued that societal "expectations" can serve as the basis for defining... | |
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Property is nothing but a basis of expectation; the expectation of deriving certain advantages from a thing which we are said to possess, in consequence of the relation in which we stand towards it. There is no image, no painting, no visible trait, which... 
