 | Great Britain - 1876 - 268 pages
...contracted to be bought, the vendor consents to the application. " Land," according to Blackstone, " includes not only the face of the earth, but everything under it and over it ; and therefore, if a man grants all his land, he grants thereby all his mines of metal... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1877 - 640 pages
...earth, belongs to the owner of the surface ; as is every day's experience in the mining countries. And therefore if a man grants all his lands he grants thereby all his mines, his woods, and his waters, as well as his houses, fields and meadows. H. An incorporeal hereditament... | |
 | William Blackstone, Alexander Leith, James Frederick Smith - Law - 1880 - 650 pages
...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 everything 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,... | |
 | John Coke Fowler - Coal mines and mining - 1884 - 472 pages
...Land," also, in its legal meaning, has an indefinite extent upwards as well as downwards. So that it includes, not only the face of the earth, but everything under it or over it. Therefore, if a man grams all his " lands," he thereby grants all his mines of metal and other fossils, his woods, his... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1885 - 626 pages
...earth, belongs to the owner of the surface ; as is every day's experience in the mining countries. And therefore if a man grants all his lands he grants thereby all his mines, his woods, and his waters, as well as his houses, fields and meadows. II. An incorporeal hereditament... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 956 pages
...its legal signilication, an indefinite extent, upwards as well as downwards. * * * The word ' land ' includes not only the face of the earth, but everything under it or over it. " The defendant's counsel claims that this action cannot be maintained, because there was no intrusion... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 902 pages
...everything which is embraced within the signification of the term "land;" and that term, says Blackstone, "includes 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 his mines of metal,... | |
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 810 pages
...its legal signification, an indefinite extent upwards as well as downwards"; * * * " the word 'land' includes not only the face of the earth, but everything under it or over it." Defendants' counsel insists that this action cannot be maintained because there was no intrusion upon... | |
 | Horace Gay Wood - Landlord and tenant - 1888 - 858 pages
...owner of the surface ; as is every day's experience in the mining countries. So 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 thereby all his mines of metal and other fossils,... | |
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land" includes not only the face of the earth, but everything under it, or over it. 
