 | New Jersey. Supreme Court - 1842 - 672 sider
...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 sider
...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...their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the Constitution." Then to Alabama belong the navigable waters, and soils under them,... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - 1846 - 276 sider
...from which your committee have made copious extracts. In the course of that reasoning the fol_ lowing quotation is made approvingly from 16 Peters 410 :...their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the constitution," and the court immediately add, "then to Alabama belong the navigable... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature. Senate - 1846 - 272 sider
...which your committee have made copious extracts. In the course of that reasoning the ft»l. lowing quotation is made approvingly from 16 Peters 410 :...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 sider
...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...their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the Constitution to the general government. A grant made by their authority must therefore... | |
 | Daniel Gardner - 1860 - 740 sider
...(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 sider
...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 sider
...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,...their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the States to the General Government. Martin vs. Waddcll, (16 Peters, 410.) Conway et... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1864 - 696 sider
...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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1870 - 852 sider
...sovereignty and jurisdiction in that behalf as the original States possess within their respective borders. f When the Revolution took place, the people of each...all their navigable waters and the soils under them, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the Constitution.^ 5. Necessary conclusion is, that... | |
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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... 
