 | New Jersey. Supreme Court - 1842 - 672 páginas
...opinion on 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...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 - 1845 - 852 páginas
...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...and the soils under them for their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the Constitution." Then to Alabama belong the navigable... | |
 | William Thompson Howell - 1846 - 40 páginas
...extracts. In the course of that reasoning the Tollowing quotation is made approvingly from 16 Peters 410: "When the revolution took place, the people of each...and the soils under them for their own common use, subject only to the rights since sunendered by the constitution," and the court immediately add, "then... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - 1846 - 276 páginas
...In 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...and the soils under them for their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the constitution," and the court immediately add, "then... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature. Senate - 1846 - 272 páginas
...In the 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...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... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - 1847 - 492 páginas
...opinion on 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...and the soils under them for their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the Constitution to the general government. A grant... | |
 | Daniel Gardner - 1860 - 740 páginas
...(See 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...navigable waters, and the soils under them, for their common use ; subject only to the rights since surrendered by the national Constitution to the general... | |
 | Richard Peters - 1860 - 792 páginas
...the 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...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 - 1862 - 658 páginas
...When the Revolution took place the people of each State became 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 to the rights since surrendered by the States to the General Government. Martin vs. Waddcll,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1864 - 696 páginas
...1. When the Revolution took place, the people of each State, in their sovereign character, acquired the absolute right to all their navigable waters, and the soils under them. Martin v. WaddelCs Lessee, 345. 2. The grant from Charles the Second to the Duke of York, of the territory... | |
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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 use, subject only to the rights since... 
