Sec.30. Thus this law of reason makes the deer that Indian's who hath
killed it; it is allowed to be his goods, who hath bestowed his labour upon it,
though before it was the common right of every one. And amongst those who are
counted the civilized part of mankind, who have made and multiplied positive
laws to determine property, this original law of nature, for the beginning of
property, in what was before common, still takes place; and by virtue thereof,
what fish any one catches in the ocean, that great and still remaining common
of mankind; or what ambergrise any one takes up here, is by the labour that
removes it out of that common state nature left it in, made his property, who
takes that pains about it. And even amongst us, the hare that any one is
hunting, is thought his who pursues her during the chase: for being a beast
that is still looked upon as common, and no man's private possession; whoever
has employed so much labour about any of that kind, as to find and pursue her,
has thereby removed her from the state of nature, wherein she was common, and
hath begun a property.
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Friday, 11 October 2013
wherein she was common, and hath begun a property.
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