REESE LIBRARY OF TIIK \ UNIVERSITY-OF CALIFORNIA. APR SO"Kec, 1893 ON PEOPEETY IN LAND PBINCIPLES OF PKOPEETY IN LAND BY JOHN BOYD KINNEAR n AUTHOR OF 'PRINCIPLES OF REFORM, POLITICAL AND LEGAL' 'A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE LAW OF BANKRUPTCY IN SCOTLAND' 'DIGEST OF HOUSE OF LORDS APPEAL CASES' ETC. LONDON & 15 WATERLOO PLACESMITH, ELDER, CO., 1880 [All rightt reserved] 36I INTBODUCTION. AT A TIME when the on which inConditions Property Land should be held are under con-being brought it seems desirable to the Prin-examinesideration, on which such as well as theciples Property rests, results of our laws Land. practical present affecting The into is thepreliminary inquiry Principles more because theories necessary, very conflicting the Institution of are for-respecting Property put ward defenders and of the existingby opponents of law. On the one side we have assertionssystem of the sacredness of in hands on;Property private the other we have the doctrine that canProperty vest in the and that its only community, appropria- tion to individuals is a moral and an econo-wrong mic blunder. Between these extiernes there is to be vi INTRODUCTION. found as to the limits ofof viewevery variety right briefand of In this situation aexpediency. exposi- tion of the basis of is essential to clear theRight for the of and theground investigation Expediency, determination of what is must be expedient finally controlled consideration of what isby practicable.
REESE LIBRARY OF TIIK \ UNIVERSITY-OF CALIFORNIA. APR SO"Kec, 1893ON PEOPEETY IN LANDPBINCIPLES OF PKOPEETY IN LAND BY JOHN BOYD KINNEAR n AUTHOR OF 'PRINCIPLES OF REFORM, POLITICAL AND LEGAL' 'A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE LAW OF BANKRUPTCY IN SCOTLAND' 'DIGEST OF HOUSE OF LORDS APPEAL CASES' ETC. LONDON & 15 WATERLOO PLACESMITH, ELDER, CO., 1880 [All rightt reserved]36I