 | Great Britain - 1876 - 268 pages
...face of the earth, but everything under it and over it ; and therefore, if a man grants all his land, he grants thereby all his mines of metal and other fossils, his woods, and his houses, as well as his fields and meadows * * * . By the name of land, which is nomen generalissimum,... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 884 pages
...signification an indefinite extent upwards as well as downwards. "Therefore," says Blackstone, "if a man grants all his lands, he grants thereby all his...and his houses, as well as his fields and meadows." Tenement, according to the same author, is a word of still greater extent, and in "its original, proper... | |
 | Benjamin Vaughan Abbott - Law - 1879 - 1054 pages
...any thing under it or over it; and if a man grants all hie lauds, he grants thereby all his mines, his woods, his waters, and his houses, as well as his fields and meadows. But this maxim states merely a presumption, which may be rebutted by showing a distinct title to the... | |
 | William Blackstone, Alexander Leith, James Frederick Smith - Law - 1880 - 650 pages
...' includes not only the face of the earth, but everything under it, or over it. And therefore if a man grants all his lands, he grants thereby all his...names of the things are *equally sufficient to pass •• s. 19. them, except in the instance of water ; by a grant of which nothing passes but a right... | |
 | John Coke Fowler - Coal mines and mining - 1884 - 472 pages
...earth, but everything under it or over it. Therefore, if a man grams all his " lands," he thereby grants all his mines of metal and other fossils, his woods, his waters, and his booses, as Tell as Ms fields. Xot but that the particular names of the things are equally sufficient... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 902 pages
...only the face of the earth, but everything under it or over it. And therefore," he continues, "if a man grants all his lands, he grants thereby all his...and his houses, as well as his fields and meadows:" 2 Bla. Com. 19. Such is the view universally entertained by the legal profession as to the effect of... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 1060 pages
...extensive signification ; also, if a man grants all his lauds, he grants all his mines of metals, and his fossils, his woods, his waters, and his houses, as well as his fields and meadows." 2 Bl. Comm. 16-18. This court had laid down well-defined rules for ascertaining the meaning of the... | |
 | Horace Gay Wood - Landlord and tenant - 1888 - 858 pages
...land includes not only the face of the earth, but everything under it or over it. And therefore if a man grants all his lands, he grants thereby all his...waters, and his houses, as well as his fields and meatlows. Not but the particular names of the things are equally sufficient to pass them, except in... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1890 - 850 pages
..."land" includes not only the face of the earth, but everything under it, oroverit.J And therefore if a man grants all his lands, he grants thereby all his...and his houses, as well as his fields and meadows. |j Not but the particular names of the things are I1»] equally sufficient to pass them, except in... | |
 | William Woodfall - Landlord and tenant - 1890 - 936 pages
...not only the face of the earth, but everything under it or over it ; l and therefore if a man grant all his lands, he grants thereby all his mines of...and his houses, as well as his fields and meadows ; a not but that the particular names of the things are equally sufficient to pass them, except in... | |
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land" includes not only the face of the earth, but every thing under it, or over it. And therefore, if a man grants all his lands, he grants thereby all his mines of metal and other fossils, his woods, his waters, and his houses, as well as his fields... 
