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... A Treatise on the Law of Navigable Rivers - Page 78by Louis Houck - 1868 - 235 pagesFull view - About this book
| New Jersey. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1842 - 672 pages
...opinion on this subject, because it has ceased to be a matter of much interest in the United States. For when the revolution took place, the people of each...became themselves sovereign, and, in that character, held 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 - 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...the rights since surrendered by the Constitution." Then to Alabama belong the navigable waters, and soils under them, in controversy ip this "case, subject... | |
| 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...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
...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...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
...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... | |
| Joseph Kinnicut Angell - Riparian rights - 1847 - 492 pages
...Waddell, 16 Peters, 410, the present Chief Justice, in delivering the opinion of the Court, said : " When the Revolution took place, the people of each...the rights since surrendered by the Constitution." Then to Alabama belong the navigable waters, and soils under them, in controversy in this case, subject... | |
| 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...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... | |
| Richard Peters - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 792 pages
...the proper organ to dispose of the public domain. Cited, Johnson v. M'Intosh, 8 Wheat. 595. Ibid. 10. When the revolution took place, the people of each...became themselves sovereign, and in that character held 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 - 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... | |
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