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“That possession was the strongest tenure of the law.”
Provenance
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8196fb6f087a8f7bd2fd30d73617034d3483a7d0ab4bec7e05e8ffaf8173b2c1
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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“Possession is eleven points in the law.”
Colley Cibber
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth.”
Grover Cleveland
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.”
Pliny the Younger
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Property has its duties as well as its rights.”
Thomas Drummond
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“[The rich] are indeed rather possessed by their money than possessors.”
Robert Burton
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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