 | 1845 - 544 pages
...its surface ; that the land immediately below is his property, whether it is solid rock, or porous ground, or venous earth, or part soil, part water;...pleasure ; and that if, in the exercise of such right, he interrupts or drains off the water collected from underground springs in his neighbour's well, the... | |
 | Herbert Broom - 1845 - 544 pages
...property. Whether it is solid rock, or porous ground, or venous earth, or part soil and part water, the person who owns the surface may dig therein, and...to his own purposes, at his free will and pleasure (/) ; although, as already stated, he may in some cases incur liability by so digging and excavating... | |
 | John Simcoe Saunders - 1851 - 776 pages
...beneath ils surface; that the land immediately is his properly, wheiher it be solid rock or porous ground or venous earth, or part soil, part water;...the surface may dig therein, and apply all that is iherc found to his own purposes at his free will and pleasure; and that if in the exercise of such... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1918 - 854 pages
...his surface ; that the land immediately below is his property, whether it is solid rock, or porous ground, or venous earth, or part soil, part water;...to his own purposes at his free will and pleasure.' Here the impracticability of applying the rule of absolute ownership to the fluid, water, which by... | |
 | Herbert Broom - 1852 - 616 pages
...Whether, therefore, it be solid rock, or porous ground, or venous earth, or part soil and part water, the person who owns the surface may dig therein, and apply all that is there found to his purposes, at his free will and pleasure ;5 although, as already stated, he may in some cases incur... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - 1854 - 732 pages
...is subterranean be solid rock, mines, or porous soil, or salt springs, or part land and part water, the person who owns the surface may dig therein and...apply all that is there found to his own purposes ad Until/it. The owner of the surface may, by excavating at the extremity, and under the surface of... | |
 | Conway Robinson - 1855 - 884 pages
...immediately below, whether it is solid rock, or porous ground or venous earth, or part soil, part water ; he may dig therein and apply all that is there found...own purposes, at his free will and pleasure ; and if in the exercise of such right he intercepts or drains off the water collected from underground springs... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1856 - 724 pages
...the soil has a right to all which lies beneath the surface. He may dig therein and apply all that is found to his own purposes, at his free will and pleasure. And if, in the exercise of such right, he intercepts or drains off the water from underground springs in... | |
 | 1858 - 488 pages
...property, whether it is solid rock or porous ground, or veinous earth, or part water and part soil ; that the person who owns the surface may dig therein...all that is there found to his own purposes at his freewill and pleasure ; and that if in the exercise of such right 74 THE LAW CHRONICLE. he intercepts... | |
 | Sir John Budd Phear - 1859 - 140 pages
...beneath his surface ; that the land immediately below is his property, whether it is solid rock or porous ground, or venous earth, or part soil, part water...to his own purposes at his free will and pleasure." The questions before the Court in this case were two, namely, whether a landowner, by sinking a shaft... | |
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... that principle, which gives to the owner of the soil all that lies beneath his surface; that the land immediately below is his property, whether it is solid rock, or porous ground, or venous earth, or part soil, part water ; that the person who owns... 
