I do not pretend to believe, if you examine the it terms strictly, in what is called the absolute property in land. You may toss a sixpence into the sea if you like, but there are things with respect to land which you cannot, and ought not, and dare not do.

— JOHN BRIGHT, Speech in the House of Commons, March 14, 1868, Speeches, Vol. I., pp. 397-8 (Edition of 1868).