 | Henry George - 1892 - 346 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 land-owner... | |
 | 1896 - 1220 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. And, Ihereforo. if a man grants all his lands lie grants thereby all... | |
 | Illinois. Appellate Court, Edwin Burritt Smith, Martin L. Newell - 1896 - 688 pages
...well as downwards; 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. This principle has become a maxim of the law. Cvjus est solum, ejus... | |
 | William Champ Rodgers - 1899 - 1052 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. And therefore, if a man grants all his lands, he grants thereby all... | |
 | William Blackstone, William Cyrus Sprague - 1899 - 570 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. And therefore if a man grants all his lands, he grants thereby all... | |
 | George Washington Kirchwey - 1900 - 596 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. And, therefore, if a man grants all his lands, he grants thereby all... | |
 | William Blackstone - 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 1904 - 980 pages
...line 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" Smith v. City of At1 lanta, 17 SB 981, 92 Ga. 119; United States !... | |
 | Louis Richard Morris - 1906 - 156 pages
...substantial nature, and in its legal signification has an indefinite extent upwards and downwards, so that the word land includes not only the face of the Earth, but everything under and over it. Tenement is of still greater extent than land, and signifies anything... | |
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land " includes not only the face of the earth, but everything under it or over it. 
