 | 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...navigable waters, and the soils under them for their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the Constitution." Then to Alabama... | |
 | 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...navigable waters and the soils under them for their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the constitution," and the court immediately... | |
 | 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...navigable waters and the soils under them for their own common use, subject only to the rights since sunendered by the constitution," and the court immediately... | |
 | 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
...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...navigable waters and the soils under them for their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the Constitution to the general government.... | |
 | 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...subject only to the rights since surrendered by the national Constitution to the general government. (See, also, 4 Selden's NTR 472.) SEC. 7. The States... | |
 | 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, and the soils under them, for their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the States to the General Government.... | |
 | 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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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... 
