 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...  Notes on the united states reports - Page 1851899Full view - About this book
 | New Jersey. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1842 - 672 pages
...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 state...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... | |
 | 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 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... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - Michigan - 1846 - 276 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature. Senate - 1846 - 272 pages
...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 state...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... | |
 | William Thompson Howell - Mines and mineral resources - 1846 - 40 pages
...the course of that reasoning the Tollowing quotation is made approvingly from 16 Peters 410: "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... | |
 | 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 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... | |
 | Richard Peters - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 792 pages
...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 state...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... | |
 | Daniel Gardner - International and municipal law - 1860 - 740 pages
...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 State...became themselves sovereign, and in that character hold the absolute right to all their navigable waters, and the soils under them, for their common use... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 696 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Louis Houck - Harbors - 1868 - 268 pages
...lands within its jurisdiction. The United States Supreme Court, Taney, Chief-Justice, says, " 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... | |
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