 | 1923 - 1654 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." 2 Bl. Com. p. 18. The common law has been a part of our system of... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1923 - 1752 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." 2 Bl. Com. p. 18. The common law has been a part of our system of... | |
 | Victor Henry Kulp - Gas - 1924 - 542 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 'land' includes not only the surface of the earth but everything under it, or over it." Blackstone, Bk. 2, p. 18. The common law... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1924 - 1218 pages
...between the surface 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.' 2 Blackstone's Comm. ch. 2, pp. 18, 19." This conclusion is strengthened... | |
 | Hiram Leonard Jome - Radio - 1925 - 360 pages
...property. This is the doctrine of the Roman Law. 'Blackstone, who quotes this maxim approvingly, says: " 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... | |
 | Ralph Stanley Bauer, Essel Ray Dillavou - Commercial law - 1925 - 1086 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... | |
 | Amos Shartle Hershey - International law - 1927 - 820 pages
...least as far as it can be utilized or controlled.10 The aerial space above the ocean of the law. ... So that the word 'land' includes not only the face of the earth, but everything under it, or over it," Coolcy's Blackstone (4th ed.), Bk. II, p. 18. Cf. Coke upon Littleton... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 1012 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 defendant 's,counsel claims that this action cannot be maintained,... | |
 | Austin Wakeman Scott, Sidney Post Simpson - Civil procedure - 1946 - 998 pages
...hath also, in its legal signification, an indefinite extent upwards as well as downwards" ; . . -1 "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... | |
 | Law - 1871 - 536 pages
...l>eing comprehended in the term " land," the following authorities were cited : Black.stouc says, " The word ' land' includes not only the face of the earth but everything under it or over it :" (2 Bl. Com. 18 ; Bouvier's Law Diet. ; 1 Greenleaf Cruise, 46.) So... | |
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land " includes not only the face of the earth, but everything under it or over it. 
