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adverse possession American Title authority Billop bounds and limits Christopher Billop citizens claim Colonial constitute conveyed County of Kent County of Richmond Court Crown lands deed doctrine Duke of York East Greenwich English Common Law English Crown Grant fact fishing Government Grant of land Grant to Lancaster held high and low high water mark human Indians King King's Lancaster Symes land between high lands granted lands on Staten lands under water limits of Richmond Lord low water mark Manor of East navigable ownership Oyster Party hereto patent payment Pope Alexander VI proprietor proprietorship Province Queen quit-rents record rents Richmond County riparian rights rivers Royal Second Party shore fronts soil statute submerged lands Symes Foundation Symes Grant theory thereof thereto tion Title and Trust Title Company title to lands trespass tribes Trust Company unappropriated lands upland vacant and unappropriated vested
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Page 13 - And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways : now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
Page 14 - And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
Page 69 - So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it ; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.
Page 13 - And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee : for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
Page 222 - ... the plaintiff must recover upon the strength of his own title, and not upon the weakness of the title of the defendant.
Page 94 - The potentates of the Old World found no difficulty in convincing themselves that they made ample compensation to the inhabitants of the New, by bestowing on them civilization and Christianity in exchange for unlimited independence.
Page 214 - To BE HELD of us our Heirs and Successors as of our Manor of East Greenwich in the County of Kent in free and Common Soccage and not in Capite or by Knights Service.
Page 132 - It is observable that water is here mentioned as a species of land, which may seem a kind of solecism; but such is the language of the law ; and therefore I cannot bring an action to recover possession of a pool or other piece of water by the name of water...
Page 132 - 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...
Page 13 - According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee. 9 Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and show them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.