 | Law - 1879 - 540 pages
...the settler upon the fast land thereby excluded from its enjoyment and unable to take a shell-fish from its bottom, or fasten there a stake, or even...becoming a trespasser upon the rights of another." In Bowman's Devisees & Burnley v. Wathen, 2 McLean, 376. 882, which was a case on the Ohio river, McLean.... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 910 pages
...appropriation by another, as private property ; and the settler upon the fast land thereby excluded from its enjoyment, and unable to take a shell fish...becoming a trespasser upon the rights of another." 16 Pet. 414. The full extent of that decision may be more clearly appreciated by referring to the dissenting... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 1108 pages
...immediate appropriation by another as private property; and tbe settler upon tbe fast land thereby excluded from its enjoyment, and unable to take a shell fish...becoming a trespasser upon the rights of another." 41 U. 8. 16 Pet. 414 [10: 1014]. The full extent of that decision may be more clearly appreciated by... | |
 | Carl Horton Pierce - Harlem (New York, N.Y.) - 1903 - 498 pages
...immediate appropriation by another as private property, and the settler upon the land thereby excluded from its enjoyment, and unable to take a shell fish from its bounds, or fasten there a stake, or even bathe in its waters, without becoming a trespasser upon the... | |
 | U.S. Army Engineer School - Riparian rights - 1908 - 156 pages
...appropriation by another, as private property ; and the settler upon the fast land thereby excluded from its enjoyment, and unable to take a shell fish...becoming a trespasser upon the rights of another:" 16 Pet., 414. The full extent of that decision may be more clearly appreciated by referring to the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 1044 pages
...immediate appropriation by another as private property; and the settler upon the fast land thereby excluded from its enjoyment, and unable to take a shell fish...becoming a trespasser upon the rights of another." 41 U. 8. 16 Pet. 414 [10: 1014]. The full extent of that decision may be more clearly appreciated by... | |
 | United States. Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors - Harbors - 1923 - 258 pages
...the settler upon the fast land thereby excluded from its enjoyment, and unable to take a shell-fish from its bottom, or fasten there a stake, or even...conformed to the practice of the other chartered colonies. Thus it was held that the grants from the British Crown of certain tide flats in America had given... | |
 | United States. Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors - Harbors - 1923 - 256 pages
...the settler upon the fast land thereby excluded from its enjoyment, and unable to take a shell-fish from its bottom, or fasten there a stake, or even...upon the rights of another. The usage in New Jersey lias. in this respect, from its original settlement, conformed to the practice of the other chartered... | |
 | Law - 1879 - 542 pages
...the settler upon the fast land thereby excluded from its enjoyment and unable to take a shell-fish from its bottom, or fasten there a stake, or even...becoming a trespasser upon the rights of another." In Bowman's Devisees & Burnley v. Wathen, 2 McLean, 376, 382, which was a case on the Ohio river. McLean,... | |
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... hardships that unavoidably attended their emigration to the New "World, and to people the banks of its bays and rivers, if the land under the water at their very doors was liable to immediate appropriation by another, as private property ; and the... 
