 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
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1890 - 850 pages
...that fthe word "land" includes not only the face of the earth, but everything under it, oroverit.J And therefore if a man grants all his lands, he grants...waters, and his houses, as well as his fields and meadows. |j Not but the particular names of the things are I1»] equally sufficient to pass them, except... | |
 | William Woodfall - Landlord and tenant - 1890 - 936 pages
...not only the face of the earth, but everything under it or over it ; l 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 ; a not but that the particular names of the things are equally sufficient to pass them, except... | |
 | Louis Arthur Goodeve - Real property - 1891 - 606 pages
...and not of the other " (»). Again, of a gift of land he says : — "If a man grants all his lauds he grants thereby all his mines of metal and other...waters, and his houses, as well as his fields and meadows." The same thing is thus expressed in the Touchstone : — " By the grant of the land or ground... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 1284 pages
...estates with respect to the mode of enjoying those profits. " Blackstone says, (2 Bl. Ooinm. § 17:) "If a man grants all his lands, he grants thereby...all his mines of metal and other fossils, his woods, hie waters, and his houses, as well as his fields and meadows.'' As is said in Lent'ers v. Henke, supra:... | |
 | Appellate courts - 1902 - 832 pages
...extensive signification; also, If a man grants all his lands, be grants all his mines of metals and bis fossils, his woods, his waters, and his houses, as well as his fields and meadows." 2 Bl. Comm. 16-18. Washburn says : "Land is always regarded as real property, and ordinarily... | |
 | Franklin Monroe Sprague - Socialism - 1892 - 528 pages
...permanent, substantial nature. ... If a man grants all his lands, he thereby grants all his mines, . . . his woods, his waters, and his houses as well as his fields and meadows." 2 More than half a century later (1817) Ricardo elaborated a theory of rent that ignored... | |
 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1893 - 558 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...woods, his waters, and his houses, as well as his lields ami meadows. Not but the particular names of the tilings are equally sufficient to pass them,... | |
 | Pennsylvania. State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1884 - 734 pages
...So that the word land means 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 of metal and coal, his woods, his waters, and his houses, as well as his fields and meadows. »9N. Y., 183. t Stover... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 1220 pages
...over it. And, Ihereforo. if a man grants all his lands lie grants thereby all his mines of metal anil other fossils, his woods, his waters, and his houses, as well as his fields and meadows." In mining districts parties may, and frequently do, sever the ownership of the surface from... | |
 | William Champ Rodgers - Domestic relations - 1899 - 1052 pages
...that the word 'land ' 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...his waters and his houses, as well as his fields and meadows."4 This elementary proposition of law thus laid down by the illustrious commentator must be... | |
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