A mere clerk, with a dash of his pen, may overcharge you thousands of francs...
Nothing has ever been done in France in behalf of real estate.

Whoever has a good law passed on the cadastre (official valuation of all the land in France) will deserve a statue."] [Footnote 2325: Honore Perouse, Ibid, 274 (Speech of Napoleon to the council of state on the law on mines):" "Myself, with many armies at my disposition, I could not take possession of any one's field, for the violation of the right of property in one case would be violating it in all.

The secret is to have mines become actual property, and hence sacred in fact and by law."-- Ibid., 279:" "What is the right of property?
It is not only the right of using but, again, of abusing it.
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One must always keep in mind the advantage of owning property.
The best protection to the owner of property is the interest of the individual; one may always rely on his activity....

A government makes a great mistake in trying to be too paternal; liberty and property are both ruined by over-solicitude."-- "If the government prescribes the way in which property shall be used it no longer exists." .-- Ibid., 284 (Letters of Aug.21 and Sept.