 | United States. Supreme Court - 1845 - 852 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature. Senate - 1846 - 272 pàgines
...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 of each...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... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - 1846 - 276 pàgines
...In the course of that reasoning the fol_ lowing quotation is made approvingly from 16 Peters 410 : "When the revolution took place, the people of each...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... | |
 | William Thompson Howell - 1846 - 40 pàgines
...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 each...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... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - 1847 - 492 pàgines
...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 hold the absolute right to all their navigable waters and the soils under them for their own common... | |
 | Daniel Gardner - 1860 - 740 pàgines
...(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...became themselves sovereign, and in that character hold the absolute right to all their navigable waters, and the soils under them, for their common use... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1864 - 696 pàgines
...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 hold the absolute right to all their navigable waters and the soils under them for their own common... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1870 - 852 pàgines
...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, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the Constitution.^ 5. Necessary conclusion is, that... | |
 | Louis Houck - 1868 - 268 pàgines
...all the lands within its jurisdiction. The United States Supreme Court, Taney, Chief-Justice, says, " When the Revolution took place, the people of each...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... | |
 | George Washington Paschal - 1868 - 452 pàgines
...not to be found in the Federal Constitution. It has not 7^ 13^ 269. been taken from the States. Id. When the Revolution took place the people of each State became themselves sovereign, and in that 2, 6. character hold the absolute right to all their navigable waters and the soil under them for their... | |
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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... 
