Speech on the lieform of Parliament, vol. X, p

59. Reflections, Works, vol. V, p. 274 : AVith tiie national assend)ly of France, possession is nothing, law and usage ai-e nothing. I see tlie national assembly openly reprobate tiie doctrine of prescription, which one of Ihc greatest of their own lawyers (Domat) tells us, with great truth, is a paît of the law of nature. He tells us, that the positive ascertainment of its limits, and its security from invasion, vvere aniong the causes for wliich civil Society itself bas been instituted. If prescription be once shaken, no species of property is secure, vviien it once becomes an object large enough to tempt the ctipidity of indigent power. I sec a prai'tice perfectly correspondent to their conlenipt of this gn-al fiin(hunental i)art of natural law. — Cf. Correspondence, vol. III, pp. l'i'i-S : lettre au capitaine Mercer, 26 fùv. 1790.

30. Lelier to a noble lord, 1706. Works, vol. VU. pp. 375 sqq.