§. 120. To understand this the better, it is fit to consider that every man
when he at first incorporates himself into any commonwealth, he, by his uniting
himself thereunto, annexes also, and submits to the community those possessions
which he has, or shall acquire, that do not already belong to any other
government. For it would be a direct contradiction for any one to enter into
society with others for the securing and regulating of property, and yet to
suppose his land, whose property is to be regulated by the laws of the society,
should be exempt from the jurisdiction of that government to which he himself,
and the property of the land, is a subject. By the same act, therefore, whereby
any one unites his person, which was before free, to any commonwealth, by the
same he unites his possessions, which were before free, to it also; and they
become, both of them, person and possession, subject to the government and
dominion of that commonwealth as long as it hath a being. Whoever therefore,
from thenceforth, by inheritance, purchases permission, or otherwise enjoys any
part of the land so annexed to, and under the government of that commonweal,
must take it with the condition it is under — that is, of submitting to
the government of the commonwealth, under whose jurisdiction it is, as far
forth as any subject of it.
