 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1860 - 874 pages
...at the bottom, and must call it twenty acres of land covered with water.(f) For water is a movable, wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature; so that I can only have a temporary, transient, usufructuary, property therein: wherefore, if a body of water... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - Law - 1863 - 812 pages
...And so if I grant a certain water, though the right of fishing passes, yet the soil does not(c). [For water is a moveable wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature ; so that I can only have a temporary, transient, usufructuary property therein: wherefore, if a body of water... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1865 - 642 pages
...lies at the bottom, and must call it twenty acres of land covered with water. For water is a movable, wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature; but the land, which that water covers, is permanent, fixed, and immovable; and of this the law will... | |
 | Law - 1892 - 554 pages
...of exclusive dominion or control. Aa Blaekstone observes (2 Block. Com. 18) : " Water is a movable, wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature; so that I nan have only a temporary, tranaient, usufructuary property therein." While the right to its nee,... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 636 pages
...distinction from the admitted property in its impetus, is in that, as Blackstonc states, "it is a movable, wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature." 2 Bl. Com. 18. Iu Suryv.Pigot, Popliam, 106, it is quaintly said, that an ejcctione firma will not... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1872 - 776 pages
...the bottom, and must call it twenty acres of land covered with water. (/) (4) For water is a movable, wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature ; so that I can only have a temporary, transient, usufructuary property therein ; wherefore, if a boäy of water... | |
 | Emory Washburn - Servitudes - 1873 - 830 pages
...was held personally liable for the act.2 9. But still, water, though an element, is not " a movable, wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of natious," as represented by Blackstone.3 Nor is " flowing water" so far " originally publici juris,"... | |
 | William Pugsley - 1879 - 814 pages
...pvMici juris. Blackstone defines it in his commentaries, 2 vol.,in these words: "Water is a movable, wandering thing, and must, of necessity, continue common by the law of nature, so that I can only have a temporary, transient, usufructuary property therein, wherelore if a body of water... | |
 | William Blackstone, Alexander Leith, James Frederick Smith - Law - 1880 - 650 pages
...for the land that lies at the bottom, and must call it twenty acres of land covered with water. For water is a moveable wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature ; so that I can only have a temporary, transient, usufructuary, property therein; wherefore, if a body of water... | |
 | Sir James Fitzjames Stephen - Criminal law - 1883 - 468 pages
...for what is a railway ticket except evidence of a contract bv the railway to carry the holder? 3 " Water is a moveable wandering thing, and must of necessity...temporary transient usufructuary property therein" (Blackstone, 1 Steph. Com. 173, 5th ed.). There are decisions as to stealing water from pipes, but... | |
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For water is a movable, wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature; so that I can only have a temporary, transient, usufructuary, property therein... 
