 | Electronic journals - 1910 - 1060 pages
...law; upwards, therefore no man may erect any building or the like to overhang another's! land. * * * So that the word " land " includes not only the face of the earth but everything under it, or over it. so See Convention respecting the rights and duties of neutral powers... | |
 | William Homer Spencer - Commercial law - 1911 - 702 pages
...mining countries. So that the word "land'7 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 all his mines of metal and other fossils, his woods, his water, and his houses, as well as his fields... | |
 | John Henry Wigmore - Torts - 1912 - 1132 pages
...surface of any land and the centre of the earth, belongs to the 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.* i 1 Inst. 4. 2 Brownl. 142. ' [WM JAMES, VC, in Carbett v. Hill (1870,... | |
 | Amos Shartle Hershey - International law - 1912 - 628 pages
...territorial waters (including the marginal seas) or above that part of calum is the maxim of the law. ... So that the word 'land' includes not only the face of the earth, but everything under it, or over it," Cooley's Blackstonc (4th ed..), Bk. II, p. 18. Cf. Coke upon Littleton... | |
 | Curtis Holbrook Lindley - Mineral lands - 1914 - 968 pages
...Blackstone, that when one conveys land, that term includes not only the surface of the earth but everything under it or over it. And therefore if a man grants all his lands he grants all his mines of metal and other fossils, his woods, his waters, and his houses, as well as his fields... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1915 - 1632 pages
...surface of any land and the center of the earth, belongs to the 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.5 And therefore if a man grants all his lands, he grants thereby all... | |
 | Benaiah Whitley Adkin - Forms (Law) - 1918 - 478 pages
...which are general in character, and which have, from time to time, been defined by the Courts, eg , the word " land " includes not only the face of the earth, but everything under it and over it, including mines, woods, waters, houses, etc. In some ancient leases... | |
 | 1923 - 1654 pages
...surface of any land and the center of the earth, belongs to the 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." 2 Bl. Com. p. 18. The common law has been a part of our system of... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1923 - 1752 pages
...surface of any land and the center of the earth, belongs to the 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." 2 Bl. Com. p. 18. The common law has been a part of our system of... | |
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land " includes not only the face of the earth, but everything under it or over it. 
