| Henry George - Economics - 1911 - 326 pages
...also holds the rocks and minerals below it and the air and the light above it. As Blackstone says: "The word 'land' includes not only the face of the earth, but everything under it or over it. ... By the name of land everything terrestrial will pass." The landowner... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 1220 pages
...line between the 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....'land' Includes not only the face of the earth, but everything under it or over it. And, Ihereforo. if a man grants all his lands lie grants thereby all... | |
| William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - Law - 1899 - 570 pages
...between the 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...."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... | |
| William Champ Rodgers - Domestic relations - 1899 - 1052 pages
...line between the 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....'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... | |
| William Champ Rodgers - Domestic relations - 1899 - 1100 pages
...line between the 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 1land ' includes not only the face of the earth, but everything under it or over it. And therefore,... | |
| George Washington Kirchwey - Real property - 1900 - 596 pages
...line between the 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....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... | |
| George Washington Kirchwey - Real property - 1900 - 578 pages
...line between the 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....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... | |
| William Blackstone - Law - 1902 - 540 pages
...title of Bourne V. Taylor, ю East, 205, where all the leading cases on the subject are discussed. The countries. So that the word "land" includes not only...of the earth, but every thing under it, or over it. (21) And therefore, if a man grants all his lands, he grants thereby all his mines of metal and other... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 1116 pages
..."Land hath also, 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,... | |
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