A poor peasant hungers after the possession of a few acres which he occupies, but his land-hunger for that which is to him, as Lord Chancellor Blackburne said, a necessity of life, for the soil which he has reclaimed, and for the hut which he has built, this is a breach of the spirit of the Decalogue, something between petty larceny and highway robbery!

— LORD CHIEF JUSTICE COLERIDGE, The Laws of Property, Address before the Glasgow Juridical Society, Macmillan’s Magazine, April, 1888, p. 411.