Biblical Principles of Law: Dominion and Property

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DOMINION AND PROPERTY

: Genesis and the Common Law of Property
Dominion Mandate: Family Authority
Private Property Ownership: God's Gift
Stewardship: Man's Responsibility to God
Conclusion

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FOOTNOTES
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   1. W. Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England (1776), Vol 2, 2.
   2. Genesis 1:28.
   3. W. Blackstone, supra note 1, at 3.
   4. J. Kent, Commentaries on American Law (1827), Vol 2, 255.
   5. Hesiod, Works and Days (c. 65 B.C.), 90-180.
   6. Lucretius, On the Nature of Things, (c. 65 B.C.) pt. 5.
   7. J. Kent, supra note 4, at 255-266.
   8. Id.
   9. Id.
   10. Romans 1:22-23.
   11. Romans 1:18-21,25.
   12. Funk and Wagnalls New Encyclopedia (R. Phillips ed., 1979), Vol. 15, 325.
   13. Romans 1:26-28.
   14. Romans 1:29-31.
   15. See, e.g., Calder v. Bull, 3 U.S. (3 Dallas) 386 (1798).
   16. The fact summary is taken from the United States Supreme Court opinion in Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff, 81 L.Ed. 2d 186 (1984).
   17. Id., at 199.
   18. Romans 1:25.
   19. F. Engels, "The Communist Manifesto" in Man and the State: The Political Philosophers (S. Commins & R. Linscott 1947), 487-488, n. 1.
   20. K. Marx, The Communist Manifesto (1847), pt. 2.
   21. See, H.L. Morgan, Ancient Society (1877).
   22. R. Hofstadter, Social Darwinism in American Thought (rev. ed. 1959), 5-7.
   23. See, e.g., West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, 300 U.S. 379, 57 S.Ct. 578, 81 L.Ed. 703 (1937).
   24. Genesis 14:18-19.
   25. Genesis 14:20.
   26. Psalms 24:1, 50:9-12.
   27. Revelation 4:11.
   28. John 1:3.
   29. Colossians 1:16.
   30. Genesis 1:26.
   31. Genesis 1:28.
   32. Genesis 2:15,18.
   33. Genesis 4:2.
   34. Genesis 9:20.
   35. Genesis 47:20.
   36. Genesis 47:20-23.
   37. Exodus 1:11.
   38. Numbers 26:52-56.
   39. See, e.g., Joshua 16:1-8.
   40. See, Leviticus 25:10,23-27.
   41. Matthew 6:25-33.
   42. Mark 10:30.
   43. Matthew 20:15.
   44. Matthew 21:33-40.
   45. Matthew 21:41.
   46. Acts 2:44-45.
   47. Acts 5:3-4.
   48. 1 Timothy 5:3-4.
   49. 1 Timothy 5:8.
   50. Exodus 1:7.
   51. Exodus 1:12.
   52. Exodus 1:16,17.
   53. K. Marx, supra note 20.
   54. F. Engels, Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State (1884), 67.
   55. Id.
   56. Id., at 57.
   57. Lenin, Women and Communism (1950), 63.
   58. Lenin, The Emancipation of Women (1966), 84.
   59. Ecclesiastes 7:13.
   60. W. Blackstone, supra note 1, at 3.
   61. J. Locke, Second Treatise of Government (1764), 18.
   62. W. Blackstone, supra note 1, at 5.
   63. Locke, supra note 61, at 19.
   64. Id.
   65. Id.
   66. See, Marx, supra note 20.
   67. Genesis 2:15.
   68. Genesis 3:22-23.
   69. Genesis 12:16,20.
   70. Genesis 13:2.
   71. Genesis 20:2,14,16.
   72. Genesis 26:6-8.
   73. Genesis 26:12-14.
   74. Genesis 30:25-43.
   75. Exodus 12:35-36.
   76. Deuteromony 8:3-4.
   77. Joshua 14:1-2.
   78. Proverbs 16:33.
   79. Job 1:1-3.
   80. Job 1:21.
   81. Job 42:10.
   82. Job 1:10.
   83. Matthew 6:25-33.
   84. Matthew 6:24.
   85. Matthew 5:45.
   86. See, Psalms 36.
   87. Psalms 37.
   88. Luke 12:16-19.
   89. Luke 12:21.
   90. Psalms 37:22-26.
   91. Proverbs 6:6-11.
   92. Deuteronomy 29:9.
   93. Deuteronomy 28:38.
   94. Haggai 1:5-6,9.
   95. Haggai 1:10-11.
   96. Matthew 25:21,23.
   97. Matthew 25:24-29.
   98. Luke 16:10-11.
   99. 3 Caines 175 (1805).
   100. N. Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828).
   101. Genesis 2:15.
   102. Genesis 3:17-18.
   103. Romans 8:22,21.
   104. U. Middleman, Proexistence (1974), 41.
   105. Id., at 42-43.
   106. 1 Thessalonians 4:9-12, 2 Thessalonians 3:10-12.
   107. U. Middleman, supra note 104, at 46.
   108. 1 Timothy 6:6-8.
   109. I Timothy 6:9-10.
   110. 1 Timothy 6:17-18.
   111. H. Clark, Law of Domestic Relation (1968), 181-82, 189.
   112. W. Blackstone, supra note 1, at 12.
   113. W. Blackstone, supra note 1, at 10.
   114. See, e.g., J. Kent, supra note 4, at 263.
   115. W. Blackstone, supra note 1, (Tucker ed., 1803), Vol. 3, at 10 (fn.).
   116. J. McClellan, Joseph Story and the American Constitution (1971), 320.
   117. R. Chester, Inheritance, Wealth and Society (1982), 37.
   118. See,R. Mennel, Wills and Trusts in a Nutshell (1979), 6-7.
   119. See, Id., at 26-27.
   120. Proverbs 19:14.
   121. 2 Corinthians 12:14(b); Cf. Proverbs 13:22(a).
   122. Proverbs 11:29.
   123. Cf. Leviticus 19:9-10.
   124. Cf. Malachi 3:8-10.
   125. Romans 13:4,6-7(a).
   126. Ezekiel 46:18.
   127. Exodus 20:15,17.
   128. U. Middleman, supra note 104, at 42.
   129. Amos 8:4-5,7-8.