...Chinese. 7. Chambers (1983:12) based these lines on the following old English rhyme: "They clap in gaol the man or woman / Who steals the goose from off the common / But let the bigger knave go loose / Who steals the common from the goose." 8. In addition to the works...

...PRESENTATIVE-FISHERIES FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE DIVISION AND J. SCOTT FEIERABEND DIRECTOR FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE DIVISION "The law locks up the man or woman, who steals the goose from OH the common; But the greater vlllian the law lets hose, who steals the commons from the goose." Anonymous,...

...animals on common lands were turned into property crimes like poaching.12 A popular ditty declared: The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose...greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose." Forms of worker resistance such as penning anonymous letters were outlawed. Conspiring to form...

...acts of Parliament had enclosed the common lands. An anonymous ditty summed up the loss and the crime: The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common But lets the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose. Resistance to expropriation was...

...effects of enclosure, and the local hatred of the landed classes that was to follow: The law arrests the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But leaves the greater rascal loose, Who steals the common from the goose. It was this widespread enclosure of common land,...

...development A case study of successful resettlement in Zapata, Texas Jaclyn Jeffrey The law condemns the man or woman who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater villain loose who steals the common from the goose. Old English folk saying1 One of...

...that behind the State, too, there exists a fundamental normativity as reflected in the notion of the The Law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common But lets the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the t1oase. common good or public interest....

...and the social universes. No mythology does less, no science can do more. 4. Ainu The law condemns the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common But leaves the greater felon loose Who steals the common from the goose. Eighteenth-century English Rhyme The ultimate goal...

...includes, in the words of that anonymous poet particularly loved by teachers of 'A' level economic history, 'the man or woman who steals the goose from off the...greater villain loose who steals the common from the goose'. The criminal law excludes most sexual acts achieved by fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation...

...they conspire the law to break; This must be so but they endure Those who conspire to make the law. The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common' And geese will still a common lack Till they go and steal it back. English folk poem, circa 1764 INTRODUCTION...