When the Revolution took place the people of each State became themselves sovereign, and in that character hold the absolute right to all their navigable waters, and the soils under them, for their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered... Notes on the united states reports - Página 1851899Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| New Jersey. Supreme Court - 1842 - 672 páginas
...this subject, because it has ceased to be a matter of much interest in the United States. For when the revolution took place, the people of each state...sovereign, and, in that character, held the absolute right to all their navigable waters and the soils under them, for their own common use, subject only... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1845 - 852 páginas
...Waodell, 16 Peters, 410, the present chief justice, in delivering the opinion of "the court, said : " When the Revolution took place, the people ' of each state...became themselves sovereign; and in. that character hold the absolute right to all their navigable waters, and the soils under them for their own common... | |
| Michigan. Legislature - 1846 - 276 páginas
...the course of that reasoning the fol_ lowing quotation is made approvingly from 16 Peters 410 : "When the revolution took place, the people of each state...became themselves sovereign ; and in that character hold the absolute right to all their navigable waters and the soils under them for their own common... | |
| Michigan. Legislature. Senate - 1846 - 272 páginas
...course of that reasoning the ft»l. lowing quotation is made approvingly from 16 Peters 410 : "When the revolution took place, the people of each state...became themselves sovereign; and in that character hoid the absolute right to all their navigable waters and the soils under them for their own common... | |
| William Thompson Howell - 1846 - 40 páginas
...the course of that reasoning the Tollowing quotation is made approvingly from 16 Peters 410: "When the revolution took place, the people of each state...became themselves sovereign; and in that character hold the absolute right to all their navigable waters and the soils under them for their own common... | |
| Joseph Kinnicut Angell - 1847 - 492 páginas
...Waddell, 16 Peters, 410, the present Chief Justice, in delivering the opinion of the Court, said : " When the Revolution took place, the people of each State...became themselves sovereign ; and in that character hold the absolute right to all their navigable waters, and the soils under them for their own common... | |
| Richard Peters - 1860 - 792 páginas
...proper organ to dispose of the public domain. Cited, Johnson v. M'Intosh, 8 Wheat. 595. Ibid. 10. When the revolution took place, the people of each state...sovereign, and in that character held the absolute right to all their navigable waters, and the soils under them, for their own common use, subject only... | |
| Daniel Gardner - 1860 - 740 páginas
...Treaty, in Appx.) In Martin vs. Waddell, (16 Pet. 410,) the Supreme Court of our Union say : That when the Revolution took place, the people of each State...became themselves sovereign, and in that character hold the absolute right to all their navigable waters, and the soils under them, for their common use... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1864 - 696 páginas
...this subject, because it has ceased to be a matter of much interest in the United States. For when the Revolution took place, the people of each State...became themselves sovereign ; and in that character hold the absolute right to all their navigable waters and the soils under them for their own common... | |
| Louis Houck - 1868 - 268 páginas
...lands within its jurisdiction. The United States Supreme Court, Taney, Chief-Justice, says, " When the Revolution took place, the people of each State...became themselves sovereign, and in that character hold the absolute right to all their navigable waters and the soils under them for their own common... | |
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