 | William Blackstone - Law - 1791 - 566 pages
...covers, is permanent, fixed, and immoveable: and therefore in this I may have a certain fubftantial property ; of which the law will take notice, and not of the other. LAND hath alfo, in it's legal fignification, an indefinite extent, upwards as well as downwards. Cujus eftfolum,... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1794 - 700 pages
...covers, is permanent, fixed, and immoveable : and therefore in this I may have a certain fubftantial property ; of which the law will take notice, and not of the other. LAND hath alfo, in it's legal fignification, an indefinite extent, upwards as well as downwards. Citjus eft folumt... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1794 - 676 pages
...covers, is permanent, fixed, and immoveable : and therefore in this I may have a certain fubftantial property ; of which the law will take notice, and not of the other. hath alfo, in it's legal fignitication, an indefinite extent, upwards as well as downwards. Cujus eft... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1800 - 680 pages
...covers, is permanent, fixed, and immoveable : and therefore in this 1 may have a certain fubllantial property; of which the law will take notice, and not of the ether. LAND hath alfo, in itrs legal fignification, an indefinite extent, upwards as well as downwards.... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 698 pages
...reclaim it. But the land, which that water covers, is permanent, fixed, and immoveable : and therefore in this I may have a certain substantial property ; of...solum, ejus est usque ad coelum, is the maxim of the Jaw, upwards ; therefore no man may erect any building, or the like, to overhang another's land : and,... | |
 | Massachusetts, William Charles White - Law - 1810 - 208 pages
...reclaim it ; but the land which that water covers, is permanent, fixed and immoveable ; and therefore, in this, I may have a certain, substantial property,...hath also, in its legal signification, an indefinite lhi[L extent, upwards as well as downwards : therefore, no man may erect any building, or the like,... | |
 | Thomas Walter Williams - Law - 1816 - 1048 pages
...But the land, which that water covers, is permanent, fixed, and immoveable ; and therefore in this 1 may have a certain substantial property, of which the law will take notice, and not of the other. S Black. 18. Land hath also, in its legal signification, an indefinite extent, upwards as well as downwaids.... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1817 - 612 pages
...a freeholder a"s " a freeman in the possession of the soil." In another place he says, ** Land hath in its legal signification, an indefinite extent upwards...as downwards ; cujus est solum, ejus est usque ad caelum, and downwards, whatever is in a direct line between the surface of any land, and the centre... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1817 - 604 pages
...describes a freeholder as " a freeman in the possession of the soil." In another place he says, " Land hath in its legal signification, an indefinite extent upwards as well as downwards ; ciyus est solum, ejus esl usqite ad ccelvm, and downwards, whatever is in a direct line between the... | |
 | William Cruise - Real property - 1818 - 636 pages
...ground, soil, or earth whatsoever, as meadows, pastures, woods, waters, marshes, furzes and heath. It has also, in its legal signification, an indefinite extent, upwards as well as downwards ; for it is a maxim of law, that cujus est solum, ejus est tisquf ad ccelum ; therefore land legally... | |
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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, which that water covers, is permanent, fixed, and immovable: and... 
