 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - 1869 - 864 pages
...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 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... | |
 | New Jersey. Court of Chancery - 1877 - 748 pages
...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 denote the 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... | |
 | South Carolina. Court of Appeals, J. S. G. Richardson - 1851 - 704 pages
...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 denote 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... | |
 | James Kent - 1854 - 684 pages
...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 denote the 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... | |
 | United States. General Land Office - 1868 - 436 pages
...meandered and unsurveyed river, becanse all the anthorities admit that no such result follows where the terms of the grant clearly denote the intention to stop at the edge or margin, or where the grantor has no power to go beyond, these circumstances uniting in all conveyances made... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1869 - 802 pages
...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 denote 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1870 - 800 pages
...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 denote 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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grants of land, bounded on rivers, or upon the margins of the same, "ur along 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 denote the intention to stop... 
