 | William Blackstone - Law - 1791 - 566 pages
...the word " land'' includes not only the face of the earth, but every thing under it, or over it. And therefore if a man grants all his lands, he grants thereby all his mines of metal and other foflils, his woods, his waters, and his houfes, as well as his fields and meadows. Not but the particular... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1794 - 700 pages
...the word " land" includes not only the face of the earth, but every thing under it, or over it. And therefore if a man grants all his lands, he grants thereby all his mines of metal and other follils, his woods, his waters, and his houfes, as well as his fields and meadows. Not but the particular... | |
 | William Woodfall - Landlord and tenant - 1802 - 736 pages
...not only the face of the earth, but every thing under it, or over it ; and therefore, if a man grant all his lands, he grants thereby all his mines of metal and other foffils, his woods, his waters, and hishoufes, as well as his fields and meadows. Not but that the... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - Law reports, digests, etc - 1839 - 956 pages
...the face of the earth, but every thing under it or over it. And therefore, if a man grants all Ills lands, he grants thereby all his mines of metal and other fossils, his woods, his waters, and hu houses, as well as his fields and meadows. Not but the particular names of the things are equally... | |
 | William Blackstone, John Bethune Bayly - Law - 1840 - 764 pages
...downwards. It includes not only the face of the earth, but every thing under it or over it. So that if a man grants all his lands, he grants thereby all his mines, woods, waters and houses, as well as his fields and wadows ; not but the particular names of the things... | |
 | Henry Kent Staple Causton - Inheritance and succession - 1842 - 346 pages
...rule prevails,) every thing beneath and over it. i Generally therefore, if a man grant all his land, he grants thereby all his mines of metal and other fossils, his woods, waters and houses, as well as his fields and meadows. Not but the particular names of the things are... | |
 | Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1845 - 544 pages
...generalissimum, includes, not only the face of the earth, but every thing under it or over it; and therefore, if a man grants all his lands, he grants thereby all his mines, his woods, his waters, and his houses, as well as his fields and meadows (<f). Where, however, a demise... | |
 | Thomas Campbell Foster - Ireland - 1846 - 994 pages
...owner of the surface, as is every day's experience in the mining countries. So that the word ' land' includes not only the face of the earth, but everything under it or over it." The legal rights of the landlord are, however, too plain to require further notice, and I therefore... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 788 pages
...particular estates with respect to the mode of enjoying those profits." Blackstone says (2 Bl. Gomm. ยง 18): "If a man grants all his lands, he grants thereby...all his mines of metal and other fossils, his woods, hia waters, and his houses, as well as his fields and meadows." As is said in Lenfers v. Henke, supra:... | |
 | Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1852 - 616 pages
...earth belongs to the owner of the surface ; and hence, the word "land," which is nomen generalissimum, includes, not only the face of the earth, but everything under it or over it ; and therefore, if a man grants all his lands, he grants thereby all his mines, his woods, his waters,... | |
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land" includes not only the face of the earth, but everything under it, or over it. 
