 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - Law reports, digests, etc - 1839 - 956 pages
...land pass; as mines of tin, lead, iron, coal, &c." Co. Litt. 4. a. So, in 2Bl. Com. 18, it is said: " The word ' land' includes not only the face of the...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... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1836 - 406 pages
...Bailment, 275; // 'ooi'Jall's Landlord and Tenant, 151. COLLET, Judge, delivered the opinion of the Court. The word land, includes not only the face of the earth, but every thing under it, or over it. He who owns a "piece of land, therefore, is the owner of everything underneath in a direct line to... | |
 | William Blackstone, John Bethune Bayly - Law - 1840 - 764 pages
...also, in its legal signification, an indefinite Brownl. 142. extent upwards, as well as 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... | |
 | Alonzo Potter - Capitalism - 1840 - 332 pages
...accumulated, or provi- i ded beforehand for productive purposes, are called by the general term Capital. * " The word ' land' includes not only the face of the earth, but everything under it or over it. Therefore, if a man grants all his lands, he grants thereby all his... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - English law - 1841 - 626 pages
...the surface of any land and the centre of the earth, belongs in general to the owner of the surface. So that the word " land" includes not only the face of the earth, but every thing under it or over it(d). And therefore if a man grants all his lands, he grants thereby all his mines of metal and other... | |
 | Thomas Campbell Foster - Ireland - 1846 - 994 pages
...line between the surface of any land and the centre of the earth belongs to the owner of the surface, as is every day's experience in the mining countries....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... | |
 | Charles Broadbelt Claydon - Landlord and tenant - 1847 - 524 pages
...CHAP. L houses and other buildings erected thereon. Cujus est solum ejus est usque ad calum, so that "land" includes not only the face of the earth but every thing under it or over it (s). The degree of property which a person may have in land is called his estate, and is either an... | |
 | Law - 1848 - 558 pages
...line between the surface of any land and the centre of the earth belongs to the owner of the surface ; so that the word land includes not only the face of the earth, but everything under and over it. Tenements.] — Tenement is a word of still greater extent; and though,... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - Law - 1851 - 570 pages
...legally includes also all houses and other buildings built upon it ; or, in still more general terms, it includes not only the face of the earth, but every thing under it or over it. Id. ibid. 2 Bl. Com, \1, 18, Shep. Touch. 90. 1 Chitt. Gen. Pr. 179, 180. 1 Crabb's Meal Prop. 66,... | |
 | George Atkinson - Bailiffs - 1854 - 360 pages
...between the surface of any land and the centre of the earth, belongs to the owner of the surface ; as is every day's experience in the mining countries....that the word ' land ' includes not only the face of earth, but everything under it or over it. And therefore, if a man grants all his lands, he grants... | |
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land " includes not only the face of the earth, but everything under it or over it. 
