 | Gusztáv Wenzel - 1878 - 46 pages
...line, between the surface of any land and the centre of the earth, belongs to the owner of the surface. So that the word »land« includes not only the face of the earth. but every thing vnder it, or over it.« (Commentaries of the Laws of England, 16. kiad. London, 1825. II. köt. 18.... | |
 | Benjamin Vaughan Abbott - 1879 - 1054 pages
...line between the surface of any laud and the centre of the earth belongs to the owner of the surface. So that the word land includes not only the face of the earth, but any thing under it or over it; and if a man grants all hie lauds, he grants thereby all his mines,... | |
 | William Blackstone, Alexander Leith, James Frederick Smith - 1880 - 650 pages
...surface of any land and the centre of the earth, belongs ' in general ' 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. And therefore if a man grants all his lands, he grants thereby all... | |
 | George Brenchley Rosher - 1883 - 218 pages
...Before examining in detail the elements of the rateable occupation of land, it may be pointed out that land includes not only the face of the earth but every thing under it or over it, 1 so that there may be a rateable occupation below the surface by the pipes of a water company, buried... | |
 | 1889 - 956 pages
..."Land hath also, in its legal signilication, 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,... | |
 | Horace Gay Wood - 1888 - 858 pages
...between the surface of anv 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... | |
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - 1888 - 810 pages
...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." Defendants' counsel insists that this action cannot be maintained... | |
 | William Woodfall - 1890 - 936 pages
...land only ; for land comprehends, in its legal signification, any ground, soil or earth whatsoever; so the word ' land ' includes, not only the face of the earth, but everything under it or over it ; l and therefore if a man grant all his lands, he grants thereby all... | |
 | John C. Devereux - 1891 - 432 pages
...land in its legal signification ? — 18. It has an indefinite extent, upward as well as downward ; so that the word " land" includes not only the face of the earth, but everything under it, or over it. Cujus est solum, ejus eat usque ad ccelum, is a maxim of the law.... | |
 | Henry George - 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... | |
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land " includes not only the face of the earth, but everything under it or over it. 
