The American Law of Real Property, Volume 2,Parte 1W.C. Little, 1869 |
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acres action ad quod damnum adjoining adverse adverse possession afterwards alien ancestor apply Barb bound bridge charter child claim clause common law Conn conveyance conveyed court damages daugh daughter death deceased deed defendant delivery descendants devise easement entitled entry equity erected estate tail execution father fee-simple feme covert ferry fishery flow franchise give grant grantor Greenl heirs male held highway hotch-pot husband inherit injury intention intestate issue jury Kent land latter legislature license limitation Massachusetts ment mill mother navigable North Carolina obstruction Ohio owner party pass patent Penn person Pick plaintiff possession prescription presumption privilege proprietors purchase real estate remainder river road rule rule in Shelley's seisin Smith statute statute of limitations stream survey tenants in common tion town trust twenty unless Verm vested void warrant Watts Wend wife words
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Página 194 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory, as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other states that may be admitted into the confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.
Página 66 - ... and the survivors and survivor of them, and the executors and administrators of such survivor, share and share alike, as tenants in common, and not as joint tenants...
Página 376 - We hold the true principle to be this, that whenever the question In any court, state or federal, is, whether a title to land which had once been the property of the United States...
Página 260 - Ordinance of 1641-1647 provides that "every inhabitant who is an householder shall have free fishing and fowling in any great ponds, bays, coves and rivers so far as the sea ebbs and flows within the precincts of the town where they dwell, unless the freemen of the same town or the General Court have otherwise appropriated them. Provided, that no town shall appropriate to any particular person or persons, any great pond, containing more than ten acres of land, and that no man shall come upon another's...
Página 65 - So a devise to the testator's two sons and their heirs, and the longer liver of them, equally to be divided between them and their heirs, after the death of his wife...
Página 126 - Franchise and liberty are used as synonymous terms, and their definition is a royal privilege or branch of the king's prerogative, subsisting in the hands of a subject.
Página 379 - Primordia. An Attempt Towards laying the Foundation of an American Library, In several Books, Papers, and Writings, Humbly given to the Society For Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts...
Página 143 - ... secured by the act of Parliament, so that the company could not prevent them from using it, and the toll demanded was admitted to be reasonable. Yet, as they only used one of the levels of the canal, and did not pass through the locks, and the statute, in giving the right to exact toll, had given it for articles which passed " through any one or more of the locks...
Página 269 - Presumptions of this nature are adopted from the general infirmity of human nature, the difficulty of preserving muniments of title, and the public policy of supporting long and uninterrupted possessions. They are founded upon the consideration that the facts are such as could not, according to the ordinary course of human affairs, occur, unless there was a transmutation of title to, or an admission of an existing adverse title in, the party in possession.
Página 335 - ... if no mother living, or descendants from such mother, then to the maternal ancestors and their descendants in the same manner as is above directed as to the paternal ancestors and their descendants...