 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1845 - 852 pages
...Waodell, 16 Peters, 410, the present chief justice, in delivering the opinion of "the court, said : " When the Revolution took place, the people ' of each...became themselves sovereign; and in. that character hold the absolute right to all their navigable waters, and the soils under them for their own common... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - Michigan - 1846 - 276 pages
...In the course of that reasoning the fol_ lowing quotation is made approvingly from 16 Peters 410 : "When the revolution took place, the people of each...became themselves sovereign ; and in that character hold the absolute right to all their navigable waters and the soils under them for their own common... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature. Senate - 1846 - 272 pages
...In the course of that reasoning the ft»l. lowing quotation is made approvingly from 16 Peters 410 : "When the revolution took place, the people of each...became themselves sovereign; and in that character hoid the absolute right to all their navigable waters and the soils under them for their own common... | |
 | William Thompson Howell - Mines and mineral resources - 1846 - 40 pages
...extracts. In the course of that reasoning the Tollowing quotation is made approvingly from 16 Peters 410: "When the revolution took place, the people of each...became themselves sovereign; and in that character hold the absolute right to all their navigable waters and the soils under them for their own common... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - Riparian rights - 1847 - 492 pages
...however, arise in this case, unless it shall first be decided that in the grant to the Duke of York the king intended to sever the bottoms of the navigable...became themselves sovereign ; and in that character hold the absolute right to all their navigable waters and the soils under them for their own common... | |
 | Daniel Gardner - International and municipal law - 1860 - 740 pages
...(See Treaty, in Appx.) In Martin vs. Waddell, (16 Pet. 410,) the Supreme Court of our Union say : That when the Revolution took place, the people of each...became themselves sovereign, and in that character hold the absolute right to all their navigable waters, and the soils under them, for their common use... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 696 pages
...however, arise in this case unless it shall first be decided that in the grant to the Duke of York, the king intended to sever the bottoms of the navigable...became themselves sovereign ; and in that character hold the absolute right to all their navigable waters and the soils under them for their own common... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 852 pages
...sovereignty and jurisdiction in that behalf as the original States possess within their respective borders. f When the Revolution took place, the people of each...became themselves sovereign, and in that character hold the Absolute right to all their navigable waters and the soils under them, subject only to the... | |
 | Louis Houck - Harbors - 1868 - 268 pages
...all the lands within its jurisdiction. The United States Supreme Court, Taney, Chief-Justice, says, " When the Revolution took place, the people of each...became themselves sovereign, and in that character hold the absolute right to all their navigable waters and the soils under them for their own common... | |
 | George Washington Paschal - Constitutional law - 1868 - 448 pages
...not to be found in the Federal Constitution. It has not 7^ 133^ 359. been taken from the States. Id. When the Revolution took place the people of each State became themselves sovereign, and in that 2, 6. character hold the absolute right to all their navigable waters and the soil under them for their... | |
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For when the Revolution took place, the people of each State became themselves sovereign ; and in that character hold the absolute right to all their navigable waters and the soils under them for their own common use, subject only to the rights since... 
