 | Railroad law - 1896 - 772 pages
...term " land," in this statute, evidently has its comprehensive common-law signification, including "not only the face of the earth, but everything under it or over "Land"- ,t" (2 B1 Comm. 1 8), at least so far as necessary What is meant , , , . ' . . ' *or tnc location,... | |
 | William Blackstone (Sir) - Great Britain - 1897 - 838 pages
...owner of the surface owns to the centre of the earth, as is evidenced in the case of mines. Hence land 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 his mines, his woods, his houses and his waters, as... | |
 | William Champ Rodgers - Domestic relations - 1899 - 1100 pages
...owner of the surface, as is every day's experience in the mining countries. So that the word 1land ' 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,... | |
 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1899 - 570 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,... | |
 | John Cassan Wait - Architects - 1900 - 728 pages
...Land hath also, in its legal signification, an indefinite extent, upwards as 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 his mines of metal and other fossils, his woods,... | |
 | George Washington Kirchwey - Real property - 1900 - 596 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 1116 pages
...in 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." The defendants' counsel claims that this action cannot be maintained, because there wa» no intrusion... | |
 | Law - 1904 - 980 pages
...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 ! Pipe-Line Co. v. Delaware, L. &... | |
 | William Albert Finch - Real property - 1904 - 1398 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... | |
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land" includes not only the face of the earth, but everything under it, or over it. 
