...* In Martin i>. 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...

...involving a waterfront lot situated below high-water mark in San Francisco, the Court said (p. 436) : "When the Revolution took place, the people of each...all their navigable waters and the soils under them, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the Constitution." And in Hardin v. Jordan, 140 US...

...everythmg susceptible of private and individual ownership, of which a fishery is one. The court held: 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, subject only to the...

...navigable waters within its limits. In the case of Martin vs. W add ell (16 Peters 410), the court said: "When the Revolution took place, the people of each state became themselves sovereign, and hi that character hold the absolute right to all their navigable waters and the soils under them for...

...State became themselves sovereign " (Martin vs. Waddell, 10 Peters, 410), and in that capacity held the absolute right to all their navigable waters and the soils under them. In Pollard's Lessee vs. Hagan (3d Howard, 2¿JO), the Supreme Court of the United States expressly...

...States within which they are found, * * * " Martin v. Waddell (1842), 41 US 366, 410: "# * * por wllen the Revolution took place, the 'people of each State...their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the Constitution to the general Government." (Namely, the rights of regulation incident...

...leading cases are typical of these decisions : Martin v. Waddell ( (1842) 41 US 366, 410) : "* * * 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." (Namely, the rights of regulation incident...

...Justice Taney said in 1842, while speaking for the Supreme Court in Martin v. Waddell (16 Pet. 367, 410) : When the Revolution took place the people of...absolute right to all their navigable waters, and soils under them, for their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the Constitution...

...inland or not. A few examples of the language used in these decisions follow [emphasis supplied]: For when the Revolution took place the people of each...character hold the absolute right to all their navigable water* and the soils under them * * * (Martin v. Waddell. 16 Peters 367. 410 (1812)). All soils under...

...the case of Martin v. Waddett (16 Peters 410) , the United States Supreme Court in 1842 held : For when the Revolution took place, the people of each State became themselves sovereism nnd in that character held the absolute right to all their navigable waters and the soils...