Sec. 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,
annexed 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, the proprietor of the land, is a subject. By the same
act therefore, whereby any one unites his person, which was
before free, to any common-wealth, 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 common-wealth, as long as it hath a being.
VVhoever therefore, from thenceforth, by inheritance, purchase,
permission, or otherways, enjoys any part of the land, so annexed
to, and under the government of that common-wealth, must take it
with the condition it is under; that is, of submitting to the
government of the common-wealth, under whose jurisdiction it is,
as far forth as any subject of it.
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