For water is a movable, wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature; so that I can only have a temporary, transient, usufructuary, property therein... Ruling Cases - Page 396edited by - 1901Full view - About this book
| William Blackstone - 1791 - 566 pages
...continue common by the law of nature ; fo that I can only have a temporary, tranfient, ufufrudluary, property therein : wherefore, if a body of water runs...into another man's, I have no right to reclaim it. But the land, which that water covers, is permanent, fixed, and immoveable: and therefore in this I... | |
| William Blackstone - 1794 - 700 pages
...continue common by the law of nature ; fo that I can only have a temporary, tranfient, ufufrucluary, property therein : wherefore, if a body of water runs...into another man's, I have no right to reclaim it. But the land, which that water covers, is permanent, fixed, and immoveable : and therefore in this... | |
| William Blackstone - 1794 - 676 pages
...law of nature ;• fo that I can only have a temporary,- tranfient, ufufr net nary, propertytherein : 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, which that water covers, is permanent, fixed, and immoveable : and therefore in this... | |
| William Blackstone - 1800 - 680 pages
...continue common by the law of nature; fo that I can only have i temporary, tranfient, ufufructuary, property therein: wherefore, if a body of water runs out of my pond into another mants, I have no right to reclaim it. But the land, which that water covers, is permanent, fixed, and... | |
| William Blackstone - 1807 - 698 pages
...land covered with water {. For water is a moveable wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature ; so that I can only have...into another man's, I have no right to reclaim it. But the land, which that water covers, is permanent, fixed, and immoveable : and therefore in this... | |
| Massachusetts, William Charles White - 1810 - 208 pages
...of land covered with water : for water is a moveable wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of 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 - 1816 - 1048 pages
...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 runs out_of my pond into another man's, I have no right to reclaim it. But the land, which that water covers,... | |
| sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 626 pages
...land covered with water. f For water is a moveable wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature ; so that I can only have...into another man's, I have no right to reclaim it. But the land, which that water covers, is permanent, fixed, and immoveable : and therefore in this... | |
| Alexander Whellier - 1825 - 836 pages
...of land covered with water. For water is a moveable wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature, so that I can only have...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 which that water... | |
| Sandford Nevile, Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Sir William Montagu Manning - 1834 - 904 pages
...same volume it is also said, '* Water is a movable wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature, so that I can only have...pond into another man's, I have no right to reclaim it."(a) None of these dicta, when properly understood with reference to the cases in which they were... | |
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