BOOK III PART II
either of you, this gives rise to a
suit to determine the ownership of
property, in respect of the amount
of corn belonging to each. It is in
the discretion of the judge to deter-
mine which is the corn belonging
to either party.)Where the properties of two persons are united
after such a manner as neither to admit of di-
vision nor separation, as when one builds a
house on another’s ground, in that case, the
whole must belong to one of the proprietors:
And here I assert, that it naturally is conceived
to belong to the proprietor of the most consid-
erable part. For however the compound object
may have a relation to two different persons,
and carry our view at once to both of them,
yet as the most considerable part principally