 | New Jersey. Supreme Court - 1842 - 672 strani
...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 strani
...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...all their navigable waters, and the soils under them for their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the Constitution." Then to... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - 1846 - 276 strani
...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...all their navigable waters and the soils under them for their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the constitution," and the... | |
 | William Thompson Howell - 1846 - 40 strani
...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...all their navigable waters and the soils under them for their own common use, subject only to the rights since sunendered by the constitution," and the... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature. Senate - 1846 - 272 strani
...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... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - 1847 - 492 strani
...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...all their navigable waters and the soils under them for their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the Constitution to the general... | |
 | Daniel Gardner - 1860 - 740 strani
...(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...their navigable waters, and the soils under them, for their common use ; subject only to the rights since surrendered by the national Constitution to... | |
 | Richard Peters - 1860 - 792 strani
...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 strani
...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, and the soils under them, for their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the States to the General... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1864 - 696 strani
...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...all their navigable waters and the soils under them for their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the constitution to the general... | |
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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... 
