“Book II. Chapter the second. Of REAL PROPERTY; and, first, of CORPOREAL HEREDITAMENTS. This chapter is about things that last. Blackstone’s property law is obsessed with permanence and impermanence, transience and immobility, with passing down and passing on and passing away. With fixing the intangible. And ultimately with evanescing the solid land beneath your feet into a fantastic network of ideas, ethics, symbols, recognitions, understandings, and institutions that can structure social customs and individual behavior beyond the grave …” (more)
[Jessie Allen, Hedgehogs and Foxes, 2 May]
First posted 2020-05-03 07:42:43
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