 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 730 pages
...by low-water mark on the north bank. " When a river is the boundary between two states or nations, if the original property is in neither, and there...of the stream. But when, as in this case, one State was the original proprietor, and grants the territory on one side only, it retains the river within... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1820 - 620 pages
...is filled with water only when the river rises abore its banks, and is, at other times, dry. When a river is the boundary between two nations or states,...respecting it, each holds to the middle of the stream. Bat when, as in this OP THE UNITED STATES. 375 vase, one State (Virginia) is the original proprietor,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1820 - 622 pages
...establishing it, Virginia must have had in view the convenience of the future population of the country. When a great river is the boundary between two nations...or states, if the original property is in neither, arid there be no convention respecting it, each holds to the middle of the stream. But when, as in... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1820 - 662 pages
...between two nations or States, if the property is in neither, and there be no convention respectiqg it, each holds to the middle of the stream. But when, as in this case, one State (Virginia) is the original proprietor, and grants the territory on one side only, it retains the river... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - Water - 1824 - 380 pages
...river is the boundary line between two nations or states, if the property is in neither, and there is no convention respecting it, each holds to the middle of the stream. But when one state is the original proprietor, and grants the territory on one side only, it retains the river... | |
 | Thomas Starkie - Evidence (Law) - 1826 - 708 pages
...a river is the boundary between two nations or States, if the property is in neither, and there is no convention respecting it, each holds to the middle of the stream. But when one State is the original proprietor, and grants the territory oil one side only, it retains the river... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - Water - 1840 - 294 pages
...Anthony. When a river is the boundary line between two Nations or States, if the original property be in neither, and there be no convention respecting...of the stream. But when, as in this case, one State (Virginia) is the original proprietor, and grants the territory on one side only, it retains the river... | |
 | Samuel Finley Vinton - Fugitive slaves - 1846 - 44 pages
...desired. The application to this state of facts of the principle already so fully established that "-where a great river is the boundary between two nations...neither, and there be no convention respecting it, each hold to the middle of the stream" is both easy and unavoidable. It is also just and equitable, promoting... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - Riparian rights - 1847 - 492 pages
...territory adjoining. The well settled rule of the law of nations, is, that where an arm of the sea or a river is the boundary between two nations or states, if the original right of jurisdiction is in neither, and in the absence of any convention respecting it, each holds... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (3rd Circuit), John William Wallace - Court rules - 1849 - 584 pages
...United States that her title still extended all across the river. Chief Justice Marshall says: "When a river is the boundary between two nations or States, if the original property ^,DEe- is in neither, and there be no convention respecting — it, each holds to the middle of the... | |
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When a great river is the boundary between two nations or states, if the original property is in neither, and there be no convention respecting it, each holds to the middle of the stream. 
