 | New Jersey. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1842 - 672 pages
...revolution took place, the people of each state became themselves sovereign, and, in that character, held the absolute right to all their navigable waters and...to the rights since surrendered by the constitution to the general government. A grant made by their authority must; therefore, manifestly he tried and... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - Michigan - 1846 - 276 pages
..."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...the rights since surrendered by the constitution," and the court immediately add, "then to Alabama belong the navigable waters, and soils under them in... | |
 | William Thompson Howell - Mines and mineral resources - 1846 - 40 pages
..."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...their own common use, subject only to the rights since sunendered by the constitution," and the court immediately add, "then to Alabama belong the navigable... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature. Senate - 1846 - 272 pages
...revolution took place, the people of each state became themselves sovereign; and in that character hoid the absolute right to all their navigable waters and...use, subject only to the rights since surrendered by th* constitution," and the court immediately add, "then to Alabama belong the navigable waters, and... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - Riparian rights - 1847 - 492 pages
...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...to the rights since surrendered by the Constitution to the general government. A grant made by their authority must therefore manifestly be tried and determined... | |
 | Richard Peters - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 792 pages
...revolution took place, the people of each state became themselves sovereign, and in that character held the absolute right to all their navigable waters,...to the rights since surrendered by the constitution to the general government. A grant, therefore, made by their authority, must be tried and determined... | |
 | Daniel Gardner - International and municipal law - 1860 - 740 pages
...That 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 common use ; subject only to the rights since surrendered by the national Constitution to the general... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1862 - 658 pages
...When the Revolution took place the people of each State became sovereign, and in that character held the absolute right to all their navigable waters,...subject only to the rights since surrendered by the States to the General Government. Martin vs. Waddcll, (16 Peters, 410.) Conway et al. vs. Taylor's... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 696 pages
...1. When the Revolution took place, the people of each State, in their sovereign character, acquired the absolute right to all their navigable waters, and the soils under them. Martin v. WaddelCs Lessee, 345. 2. The grant from Charles the Second to the Duke of York, of the territory... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 852 pages
...f 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, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the Constitution.^ 5. Necessary conclusion is, that... | |
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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 surrendered... 
