 But grants of land, bounded on rivers, or upon margins of the same, or along the same, above tide water, carry the exclusive right and title of the grantee to the center of the stream, unless the terms of the grant clearly denote the intention to stop...  Report of the Commissioner of General Land Office - Page 130by United States. General Land Office - 1868Full view - About this book
 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1869 - 864 pages
...land, bounded on rivers, or upon the margin of the same, or along the same, above tide-water, carry the exclusive right and title of the grantee to the...intention to stop at the edge or margin of the river ; and the public, in cases where the river is navigable for boats and rafts, have an easement therein,... | |
 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 748 pages
...or along rivers above tide-water, carry the exclusive right and title of the grantee to the centre of the stream, unless the terms of the . grant clearly...intention to stop at the edge or margin of the river. 3 Kent 427 ; Winter v. Peterson, 4 Zab. 524; Railroad Co. v. Schurmeir, 7 Wall. 272, 287.' As to these... | |
 | South Carolina. Court of Appeals, J. S. G. Richardson - Equity - 1851 - 704 pages
...r.long the same, above tide water, carry the exclusive right and title of the grantee to the centre of the stream, unless the terms of the grant clearly...intention to stop at the edge or margin of the river: and the public, in cases where the river is navigable for boats and rafts, have an easement therein,... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1854 - 684 pages
...or along the same, above tidewater, carry the exclusive right and title of the grantee to the centre of the stream, unless the terms of the grant clearly...intention to stop at the edge or margin of the river ; and the publie, in cases where the river is navigable for boats and rafts, have an easement therein,... | |
 | John C. Devereux - Law - 1868 - 444 pages
...sovereign. But grants of land, bounded on rivers, or upon the margins of the same, above tide water, carry the exclusive right and title of the grantee to the center of the stream ; and the public, in cases where the river is navigable for boats and rafts, have an easement therein,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1869 - 802 pages
...tide-water, says Chancellor Kent, carry the exclusive right and title of the grantee to the centre of the stream, unless the terms of the grant clearly...intention to stop at the edge or margin of the river, and the public, in cases where the river is navigable for boats and rafts, have an easement therein,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1870 - 800 pages
...tide-water, says Chancellor Kent, carry the exclusive right and title of the grantee to the centre of the stream, unless the terms of the grant clearly...intention to stop at the edge or margin of the river, and the public, in cases where the river is navigable for boats and rafts, have an easement therein,... | |
 | Law - 1882 - 624 pages
...right and title of the grantee to the centre of the stream, subject to the easement of navigation, unless the terms of the grant clearly denote the intention to stop at the edge or margin of the river. If the same person be the owner on both sides of the river, he owns the whole river to the extent of... | |
 | Law - 1885 - 550 pages
...tide- water, carry the exclusive right and title of the grantee to the renter thread of the current, unless the terms of the grant clearly denote the intention to stop at the margin of the river, has been too long established and too firmly adhered to by this court to be now... | |
 | California - California - 1872 - 776 pages
...quoted from his works, expresses the rule thus: "Grants of land bounded on rivers above tide water carry the exclusive right and title of the grantee to the...a meandered and unsurveyed river are described in a United States patent as the southeast quarter of section eight, in a township and range of a given... | |
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