 | New Jersey. Supreme Court - 1842 - 672 σελίδες
...opinion on 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...became themselves sovereign, and, in that character, held the absolute right to all their navigable waters and the soils under them, for their own common... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1845 - 852 σελίδες
...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...the rights since surrendered by the Constitution." Then to Alabama belong the navigable waters, and soils under them, in controversy ip this "case, subject... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - 1846 - 276 σελίδες
...extracts. In the course of that reasoning the fol_ lowing quotation is made approvingly from 16 Peters 410 : "When the revolution took place, the people...the rights since surrendered by the constitution," and the court immediately add, "then to Alabama belong the navigable waters, and soils under them in... | |
 | William Thompson Howell - 1846 - 40 σελίδες
...extracts. In the course of that reasoning the Tollowing quotation is made approvingly from 16 Peters 410: "When the revolution took place, the people of...their own common use, subject only to the rights since sunendered by the constitution," and the court immediately add, "then to Alabama belong the navigable... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature. Senate - 1846 - 272 σελίδες
...extracts. In the course of that reasoning the ft»l. lowing quotation is made approvingly from 16 Peters 410 : "When the revolution took place, the people...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... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - 1847 - 492 σελίδες
...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...the rights since surrendered by the Constitution." Then to Alabama belong the navigable waters, and soils under them, in controversy in this case, subject... | |
 | Daniel Gardner - 1860 - 740 σελίδες
...(See 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...navigable waters, and the soils under them, for their common use ; subject only to the rights since surrendered by the national Constitution to the general... | |
 | Richard Peters - 1860 - 792 σελίδες
...the 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...became themselves sovereign, and in that character held the absolute right to all their navigable waters, and the soils under them, for their own common... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1862 - 658 σελίδες
...When the Revolution took place the people of each State became sovereign, and in that character held the absolute right to all their navigable waters,...subject only to the rights since surrendered by the States to the General Government. Martin vs. Waddcll, (16 Peters, 410.) Conway et al. vs. Taylor's... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1864 - 696 σελίδες
...1. When the Revolution took place, the people of each State, in their sovereign character, acquired the absolute right to all their navigable waters, and the soils under them. Martin v. WaddelCs Lessee, 345. 2. The grant from Charles the Second to the Duke of York, of the territory... | |
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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... 
