 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 fossils, his woods, his waters, and his houses, as w:ell as his fields...  Political Economy: Its Objects, Uses, and Principles: Considered with ... - Page 73by Alonzo Potter - 1840 - 318 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry John Stephen - English law - 1841 - 626 pages
...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...waters, and his houses, as well as his fields and meadows. Not but the particular names of the things are equally sufficient to pass them(e), but the... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Blackstone, James Stewart - Personal property - 1844 - 684 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...waters, and his houses, as well as his fields and meadows. Not but the particular names of the things are equally sufficient to pass them, except in... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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. § 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:... | |
 | George Atkinson - Bailiffs - 1854 - 360 pages
...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...waters, and his houses, as well as his fields and meadows. Not but the particular names of the things are equally sufficient to pass them, except in... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - Water - 1854 - 732 pages
...beneath the surface of any land and the centre of the earth, belongs to the owner of the surface ; and, therefore, if a man grants all his lands, he grants thereby all his mines. 2 Bla. Com. 18. See Acton v. Blundell, 12 M. & Welsb. R. 324; Doe v. Frceland, 1 TR 701. See ante,... | |
 | William Woodfall, Samuel Bealey Harrison, Henry Horn - Landlord and tenant - 1856 - 1138 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...waters, and his houses, as well as his fields and meadows : not but that the particular names of the things are equally sufficient to pass them, except... | |
 | Law - 1858 - 488 pages
...Alderson, 1 Arnold, 329-). And, therefore, it is said, " if a man grants all lya lands, be thereby grants all his mines of metal, and other fossils — his woods, his waters, and his houses, as we' as his fields and meadows. By the name of land, which is nomen generalissimum, everything terrestrial... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1860 - 874 pages
...TR 705.— CHITTY. or over it.' And therefore, if a man grants all his lands, he grants thereby J,ll his mines of metal and other fossils, his woods, his...waters, and his houses, as well as his fields and meadows. Not but the partic-ular names of the things are *equally sufficient to pass them, except in... | |
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