Sentences with phrase «property by conquest»

University of Alberta Faculty of Law Blog Feed it, keep it I had learnt that there was property by conquest, acquisition, abandonment etc..

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To lighten the eyes in the darkness, to remove the melancholy, to comfort the weakness of the heart and to bring joy and magnitude; these are soothing properties attributed to gold by a Spanish goldsmith, half a century after the conquest of New Spain.However, when Hernán Cortés told Montezuma that he and his fellow conquerors were suffering from a heart disease that only gold could cure, was he referring to that same weakness?

Only when, in addition to just institutions, the increase of mankind shall be under the deliberate guidance of judicious foresight, can the conquests made from the powers of nature by the intellect and energy of scientific discoverers, become the common property of the species, and the means of improving and elevating the universal lot.»