The only question remaining is, how this property became
actually invested: or that it is that gave a man an exclusive
right to retain in a permanent manner that specific land, which
before belonged generally to everybody, but particularly to
nobody. And, as we before observed that occupancy gave the right
to the temporary use of the soil, so it is agreed upon all
hands, that occupancy gave also the original right to the
permanent property in the substance of the earth itself; which
excludes every one else but the owner from the use of it. The
only question remaining is, how this property became actually
invested: or that it is that gave a man an exclusive right to
retain in a permanent manner that specific land, which before
belonged generally to everybody, but particularly to nobody.
And, as we before observed that occupancy gave the right to the
temporary use of the soil, so it is agreed upon all hands, that
occupancy gave also the original right to the permanent property
in the substance of the earth itse