| William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 698 pages
...at the bottom, and must call it twenty acres of land covered with water {. For water is a moveable wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common...transient, usufructuary, property therein : wherefore, if a body of water runs out of my pond into another man's, I have no right to reclaim it. But the land,... | |
| Massachusetts, William Charles White - Law - 1810 - 208 pages
...lies at the bottom, and must call it twenty acres of land covered with water : for water is a moveable wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common...nature ; so that I can only have a temporary, transient and usufructuary property therein : wherefore, if a body of water runs out of my pond into another... | |
| Thomas Walter Williams - Law - 1816 - 1048 pages
...twthty acres of land covered with water, Broten/. 142. For watet is a moveable wandering thing, anil must of necessity continue common by the law of nature ; so that 1 can only have a temporary, transient, usufructuary, property therein : wherefore, if a body of water... | |
| sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 626 pages
...at the bottom, and must call it twenty acres of land covered with water. f For water is a moveable wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common...transient, usufructuary, property therein : wherefore, if a body of water runs out of my pond into another man's, I have no right to reclaim it. But the land,... | |
| Alexander Whellier - 1825 - 836 pages
...lies at the bottom, and must call it twenty acres of land covered with water. For water is a moveable wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common...transient, usufructuary property therein ; wherefore, if a body of water run out of my pond into another man's, I have no right to reclaim it, But the land... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1855 - 980 pages
...or by superficial measure, for twenty acres of water, gives the reason : " For water is a moveable, wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature" — Vol. 2. p. 18. It is not disputed that this would be so with respect to the water of a river or... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1833 - 1308 pages
...right to seize and enjoy them afterwards." And in the same volume, page ] 8, " Water, is a moveable wandering thing, and must, of necessity, continue common by the law of nature, so that 1 can only have a temporary, transient, usufructuary property therein ; wherefore, if a body of water... | |
| Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Richard Vaughan Barnewall, John Leycester Adolphus - Law reports, digests, etc - 1835 - 1232 pages
...to seize and enjoy them afterwards." And, 2 Blackstone's Commentaries, p. 18. " Water is a moveable wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature; so that I can (a) 6 Kan, 20R. only only have a temporary, transient, usufructuary property therein ; wherefore if... | |
| William Blackstone - Law - 1836 - 852 pages
...with water (f). For water is a moveable wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common (8) by the law of nature ; so that I can only have a temporary,...transient, usufructuary, property therein: wherefore, if a body of water runs out of my pond into another man's, I have no right to reclaim it. But the land,... | |
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