 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, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1899 - 570 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...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... | |
 | George Washington Kirchwey - Real property - 1900 - 596 pages
...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...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... | |
 | John Cassan Wait - Architects - 1900 - 728 pages
...well as downwards. It includes not only the face of the earth, but everything under it or over it. If a man grants all his lands, he grants thereby all...waters, and his houses, as well as his fields and his meadows." In like manner the owner of land is held to be entitled to the possession and ownership... | |
 | Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1900 - 888 pages
...Litt. 48 li. • includes, not only the face of the earth, but everything under it or over it ; and if a man grants all his lands, he grants thereby all his mines, woods, waters, and houses, as well as his fields and meadows (</). Where, however, a demise was made... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1902 - 540 pages
...word "land" includes not only the face of the earth, but every thing under it, or over it. (21) And therefore, if a man grants all his lands, he grants...his waters, and his houses, as well as his fields *ig] and meadows. Not but the particular names of the things are *equally sufficient to pass them,... | |
 | William Albert Finch - Real property - 1904 - 1398 pages
...not only the face of the earth, but everything under it or over it. And, therefore," he continues, " if a man grants all his lands, he grants thereby all...waters, and his houses, as well as his fields and meadows." Book II. 19. Such is the view universally entertained by the legal profession as to the effect... | |
 | Law - 1904 - 980 pages
...signification an Indefinite extent upwards as well as downwards." "Therefore," says Blackstone, "it л man grants all his 'lands,' he grants thereby all...metal and other fossils, his woods, his waters, and bis bouses, as well as his fields and meadows." Lenfers v. Henke, 73 111. 405, 408. 24 Am. Rep. 263.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 1042 pages
...Bl. Com. § 17) : "If a man grants all his lands, he grants thereby all Ins mines of metal and the fossils, his woods, his waters, and his houses as well as his fields and meadaws." As is said in Lcufrrs v. Henke, supra; "Land comprehends all things of a substantial nature,... | |
 | Alexander Wood Renton, Maxwell Alexander Robertson - Great Britain - 1907 - 726 pages
...that the word 'laud' 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...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... | |
 | Arthur Henry O'Brien - Conveyancing - 1910 - 958 pages
...therewith " (Sir Edward Coke). Therefore if a man grants all his lands, he grants thereby, unless excepted, all his mines of metal and other fossils, his woods,...his waters and his houses, as well as his fields and meadows (Armour on Real Property, p. 61). In Ontario the term "land," for the purpose of conveyance,... | |
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