The law, as to preserve life is that of individuals, is a set of rules and practices … intended to appropriate to the law-makers the produce of those who cultivate the soil, prepare clothing, or distribute what is produced among the different classes, and among different communities.

— Thomas Hodgskin The Natural and Artificial Right of Property Contrasted (1832)

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