 ... but that it rather falls within that principle which gives to the owner of the soil all that lies beneath his surface ; that the land immediately below is his property, whether it is solid rock, or porous ground, or venous earth, or part soil or part...  Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of ... - Page 114by Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1861Full view - About this book
 | William Selwyn - Nisi prius - 1845
...present case is not to be governed by the law which applies to rivers and flowing streams, but that it rather falls within that principle, which gives...property, whether it is solid rock, or porous ground, or veinous earth, or part soil, part water; that the person who owns the surface may dig therein, and... | |
 | International law - 1845
...law with respect to an ancient well, held that the right to the enjoyment of subterranean springs " falls within that principle, which gives to the owner of the soil all that lies beneath its surface ; that the land immediately below is his property, whether it is solid rock, or porous... | |
 | Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1845 - 286 pages
...owner of the soil all that lies beneath its surface, and accordingly the land immediately below is bis property. Whether it is solid rock, or porous ground, or venous earth, or part soil and part water, the person who owns the surface may dig therein, and apply all that is there found... | |
 | John Simcoe Saunders - Civil procedure - 1851 - 1417 pages
...case is not to bo governed by thn law which applies to rivers and flowing streams, but that it rallier falls within that principle which gives to the owner of the soil, all that lies beneath ils surface; that the land immediately is his properly, wheiher it be solid rock or porous ground or... | |
 | Cuthbert William Johnson - Public health laws - 1852 - 328 pages
...reasons given, is not to be governed by the law which applies to rivers and flowing streams, but that it rather falls within that principle which gives...below is his property, whether it is solid rock or forms ground, or venous earth, or part soil, part water ; that the person who owns the surface may... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1918
...rule laid down in the leading case of Acton v. Blundell, 12 M. & W. 324, 354, wherein was approved the principle 'which gives to the owner of the soil all that lies beneath his surface; * * * that the person who owns the surface may dig therein, and apply all that is there found to his own purposes... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1854
...mentioned in this lecture respecting running waters over the surface of land. The court went upon the principle which gives to the owner of the soil all that lies beneath the surface, and he has a right to apply such property to his own purposes at pleasure ; and if, in... | |
 | Conway Robinson - Actions and defenses - 1855
...judgment of the exchequer chamber the person who owns the surface, owns the land immediately below, whether it is solid rock, or porous ground or venous earth, or part soil, part water ; he may dig therein and apply all that is there found to his own purposes, at his free will and pleasure... | |
 | Great Britain, Leonard Shelford - Electronic books - 1856 - 652 pages
...thought the case was not to be governed by the law which applies to rivers and flowing streams, but that it rather falls within that principle which gives...rock, or porous ground, or venous earth, or part soil or part water; that the person who owns the surface may dig therein, and apply all that is there found... | |
 | William Bainbridge - Mining law - 1856 - 709 pages
...by referring the case to the rule that gives to the landowner all that lies beneath, whether it be solid rock or porous ground, or venous earth, or part soil, part water, to be disposed of at his free will and pleasure, without Liability for any such inconvenience to his... | |
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