As it was the custom of that alert colony to take over the property of persons asking for protection, this was an act roughly equivalent to throwing open the door to a pack of wolves and saying `` Come and get it ''.

It was my desire to advise the membership of the Legion that the majority of polling places are on private property and, without an amendment to the law, we could not enforce this.

It was built by the Pasterns, and stands on the acre of ground that adjoins our property.

For many years a state tax on cities and towns was paid by the several municipalities to the state from the proceeds of the general property tax.

To determine the practice and attitude of municipal governments concerning tangible movable property, a questionnaire was sent to all local government assessors or boards of assessors in Rhode Island.

It is difficult to tabulate exactly what was meant in each individual situation, but the conclusion may be drawn that 21 towns do not assess movable personal property, and of the remainder only certain types are valued for tax purposes.

Of greater interest is a question as to whether movable property was assessed according to its location or ownership.

Another question that was asked of the assessors was whether they favored the assessment of movable property at its location or at the residence of the owner.

There was one vote for location being the place where the property is situated for the greater portion of the twelve months preceding the assessment date.

It has been said that when local government revenues were mostly produced locally from the property tax, the lack of a uniform fiscal year was no great handicap ; ;

they had also had to generalize it -- to the point, finally, where the illusion of depth and relief became abstracted from specific three-dimensional entities and was rendered largely as the illusion of depth and relief as such: as a disembodied attribute and expropriated property detached from everything not itself.

But not a single human life was lost, and property damage in the Hawaiian Islands did not exceed $800,000.

In rejecting any claim to the value of the slave property, Palfrey was giving up close to $7,000.

One of the vexatious problems to first confront President Kennedy was the property lying just across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House.

Milton and Rosella Lovett of Cranston were awarded $55,000 damages from the state in Superior Court yesterday for industrial property which they owned at 83 Atwells Ave., Providence, and which was condemned for use in construction of Interstate Route 95.

Official reasoning: the bill was a `` wanton invasion of basic property rights ''.

That kind of poverty was regarded as the exclusive property of the East, which created depressions with their stock markets and their congested populations and their greedy centralization of industries, protected by discriminatory freight rates.

Recovering the property was much less important ''.

Although his respect for Aristotle was diminished as his travels made it clear that much of Aristotle's geography was clearly wrong, when the old philosopher released his works to the public, Alexander complained " Thou hast not done well to publish thy acroamatic doctrines ; for in what shall I surpass other men if those doctrines wherein I have been trained are to be all men's common property?

It held that slavery in the territories was to be allowed as a property right to any settler, even where the majority opposed slavery.

The transfer of the property of the 4th Army ( except for part of the property of the 366th Motor Rifle Regiment of the 23rd Motor Rifle Division captured by Armenian armed formations in 1992 during the regiment's withdrawal from Stepanakert ) and the 49th arsenal was completed in 1992.

He had bought a little piece of property down along the coast of the hard country of Calabria that he knew so well.

He bought the property in 1975 using proceeds from the first movie in the Godfather trilogy.

Then they buried him in the cave of Machpelah, the property of Abraham when he bought it from the Hittites.

Thus, your watch is your own, but the watch factory belongs to the people. Land, machinery, and all other public utilities will be collective property, neither to be bought nor sold.

Slavery is a system under which people are treated as property to be bought and sold, and are forced to work.

Chattel slavery, so named because people are treated as the personal property, chattels, of an owner and are bought and sold as commodities, is the original form of slavery.

In 1885, Thomas Edison bought property in Fort Myers, Florida, and built what was later called Seminole Lodge as a winter retreat.

He bought the house Lumb Bank near Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, and maintained the property at Court Green.

On 7 April 1986 Amstrad announced it had bought from Sinclair Research "... the worldwide rights to sell and manufacture all existing and future Sinclair computers and computer products, together with the Sinclair brand name and those intellectual property rights where they relate to computers and computer related products.

In 2006 Chris Naylor was married in the castle, following which the Naylor family bought the property.

The land was bought by Quinn during the filming of The Guns of Navarone in Rhodes ; however, it was reclaimed by the Greek government in 1984 due to a change in property law.

With profits from the Gilbert and Sullivan operas and his concert and lecture agency, he bought property along the Strand in 1880 with frontage onto the Thames Embankment, where he built the Savoy Theatre in 1881.

An executive producer of a motion picture is often the person who found and bought the literary property that a film is based on, such as a novel or play.

The corporation bought property along the English coast to implement the gold-from-seawater process, but the company quickly faded from public view, and never produced any gold.

The city ended up leasing the property after the fair, and in 1977 bought it from the Masons.

After other owners, in 1834 it was bought by Uriah P. Levy, a commodore in the US Navy, who admired Jefferson and spent his own money to preserve the property.

Levy's heirs argued over his estate, but their lawsuits were settled in 1879, when Uriah Levy's nephew, Jefferson Monroe Levy, a prominent New York lawyer, real estate and stock speculator and member of Congress, bought out the other heirs for $ 10, 050, and took control of the property.

Bryant's father had tried to purchase a Bed and Breakfast property called Seascape, but David and Noelene ( also known as Sally ) Martin bought this property before his father could ready his finances, much to the disappointment of the father who often complained to his son of the " double dealing " the Martins had done to secure the purchase.

Bryant apparently believed the Martins had deliberately bought the property to hurt his family and believed this event to be responsible for the depression that led to his father's suicide, which in turn led to their own murders.

Bryant told Larner he had been surfing and had bought a property called Fogg Lodge and was now looking to buy some cattle from Larner.

If he bought property belonging to a feudal holding, or to a ward in Chancery, he had to return it as well as forfeit what he paid for it.

As he prospered, Bonanno bought property in Hempstead, Long Island and moved his family out of Brooklyn.

In 1952, he bought a large property in Marnes-la-Coquette, near Paris, and named it " La Louque ", as a homage to his mother's nickname.

At the end of the 1838 whaling season Langlois left New Zealand waters, and on arriving in France some time after June 1839, set to work to market the property which he had bought from the Māori.