 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 986 pages
...records. In Martin v. Waddell, 16 Pet. 367, it was held that, when the American Revolution was concluded, the people of each state 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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 1246 pages
...those purposes. In Martin v. Waddell, 41 US (16 Pet.) 410, 10 L. Ed. 997, Chief Justice Taney said: "When the revolution took place, the people of each...and the soils under them, for their own common use." In Illinois C. Ry. y. Illinois, 146 US 452, 13 Sup. Ct 118, 36 L. Ed. 1018, the court defined this... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 880 pages
...riparian owners hold to the middle of the stream. In Martin \. Waddell, 16 Pet. 367, it was held, that 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 soil under them for their common use,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 890 pages
...somewhere. They had it before the constitution was adopted, and they have it still. " When the Involution took place the people of each state became themselves...absolute right to all their navigable waters and the soil under thorn for their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the constitution... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 940 pages
...seized of all the rights of sovereignty, jurisdiction, and eminent domain which those states possessed. When the revolution took place the people of each...beca'me themselves sovereign, and in that character held the absolute right to all their navigable waters, and the soils under them, subject only to the... | |
 | John Norton Pomeroy - Irrigation laws - 1887 - 344 pages
...opinion of the court, said: 'When the revolution took place, the people of 13 How. 223. * 16 Pet. 410. each state became themselves sovereign, and in that...their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the constitution.' To Alabama, then, belong the navigable waters, and soils under them,... | |
 | Hannis Taylor - Constitutional history - 1889 - 642 pages
...severed, the English prov- formecHnto inces in America rose to the full stature of sovereign states. " When the Revolution took place the people of each state became themselves sovereign." 2 And as soon as they "took into their own hands the powers of sovereignty, the prerogatives and regalities... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 774 pages
...the whole~ people are interested. As said by Chief Justice Taney, in Martin v. Waddell, 16 Pet. 367, 410: " When the Revolution took place the people of...their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the Constitution to the general government." In Arnold v. Mundy, 1 Halsted, 1, which... | |
 | Washington (State). Supreme Court, Eugene Genroy Kreider - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 770 pages
...18 — 2 WASH. Opinion of the Court — ANDERS, CJ [2 Wash. much interest in the United States; for, when the revolution took place, the people of each...their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the constitution to the general government. A grant made by their anthority must therefore... | |
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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... 
