 | Law - 1904 - 980 pages
...line between the surface of any land and the center 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 it or over it" Smith v. City of At1 lanta, 17 SB 981, 92 Ga. 119; United States !... | |
 | Louis Richard Morris - Fire insurance - 1906 - 156 pages
...substantial nature, and in its legal signification has an indefinite extent upwards and downwards, so that the word land includes not only the face of the Earth, but everything under and over it. Tenement is of still greater extent than land, and signifies anything... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1910 - 1060 pages
...law; upwards, therefore no man may erect any building or the like to overhang another's! land. * * * So that the word " land " includes not only the face of the earth but everything under it, or over it. so See Convention respecting the rights and duties of neutral powers... | |
 | Alexander Wood Renton, Maxwell Alexander Robertson - Great Britain - 1907 - 726 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. So that the word 'laud' includes not only the face of the earth, but everything under it or over it. And therefore if... | |
 | William Homer Spencer - Commercial law - 1911 - 702 pages
...mining countries. So that the word "land'7 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 all his mines of metal and other fossils, his woods, his water, and his houses, as well as his fields... | |
 | John Henry Wigmore - Torts - 1912 - 1132 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.* i 1 Inst. 4. 2 Brownl. 142. ' [WM JAMES, VC, in Carbett v. Hill (1870,... | |
 | Amos Shartle Hershey - International law - 1912 - 628 pages
...territorial waters (including the marginal seas) or above that part of calum is the maxim of the law. ... So that the word 'land' includes not only the face of the earth, but everything under it, or over it," Cooley's Blackstonc (4th ed..), Bk. II, p. 18. Cf. Coke upon Littleton... | |
 | Curtis Holbrook Lindley - Mineral lands - 1914 - 968 pages
...Blackstone, that when one conveys land, that term includes not only the surface of the earth but everything under it or over it. And therefore if a man grants all his lands he grants all his mines of metal and other fossils, his woods, his waters, and his houses, as well as his fields... | |
 | Benaiah Whitley Adkin - Forms (Law) - 1918 - 478 pages
...which are general in character, and which have, from time to time, been defined by the Courts, eg , the word " land " includes not only the face of the earth, but everything under it and over it, including mines, woods, waters, houses, etc. In some ancient leases... | |
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land " includes not only the face of the earth, but everything under it or over it. 
