 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 792 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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 868 pages
...to the rights surrendered to the Rational Government by the Constitution of the United States; that 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. If these principles are applicable to the... | |
 | 1899 - 952 pages
...adhering to Rogers v. Jones, 1 Wend. 237, holding king could make such grants. Water-courses.—When the Revolution took place, the people of each State...became themselves sovereign, and in that character held the absolute rights to all their navigable waters and the soil under them, for their own national... | |
 | United States - 1901 - 1234 pages
...244, 245, and b. 2,ch. 7, s. 80." In Martin v. Waddell, 16 Pet., 410, Chief Justice Marshall said: "When the Revolution took place, the people of each...their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered bjr the Constitution." In Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheat., 196, Chief Justice Marshall said... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 1108 pages
...the hands of the Duke of York." p. 416. "When the Revolution took place tbe people of each •täte became themselves sovereign; and in that character hold the absolute right to all their navigable walers and the soils under them for their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 1410 pages
...theretofore been possessed by the original thirteen states. Pollard T. Bagan, 3 How. 212, 11 L. ed. 665. 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. Martin v. Waddell, 16 Pet. 410, 10 L. ed.... | |
 | Commonwealth Club of California - California - 1916 - 722 pages
...inhabitants.) 1842. Martin et al. v. The Lessee of Waddell, 16 Pet. 367, 10 L. Ed. 997 (New Jersey). "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." 1845. Pollard et al v. Hagan et al., j... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 814 pages
...of the people. When this court said, in Martin v. Waddell, that the sovereign people of each State hold the absolute right to all their navigable waters,...their own common use subject only to the rights since surrendered by the Constitution to the general government, and that the grants made by their authority... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 1008 pages
...says the Supreme Court of the United States in Mariin v. WaAlell, 41 US 16 Pet. 410, 10 L. ed. 1012. 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... | |
 | U.S. Army Engineer School - Riparian rights - 1908 - 156 pages
...the same plight and- condition in which they originally came to th^ hands of the Duke of York:" p. 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:" p. 410. It was in giving the reasons for... | |
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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... 
