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Excerpt from The Revised Reports, 1846-1849, Vol. 77: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English Courts of Common Law and Equity, From the Year 1785, as Are Still of Practical Utility; 6 Hare, 6 Common Bench, 3 Exchequer, 10 Jurist
Wood v. W'aud, p. 809, is a leading case on the rights of riparian owners.
The only judgment of much antiquarian interest in this volume is that in Calmady v. Rowe, p. 502, on manorial rights over the sea-shore. Jampua, an uncommon term, occurs among the general words cited in the note at p. 9310. We have added the interpretation from Du Cange. The claim of royalty as far south as a lumber-cask may be seen belongs to a curious class of boundary descriptions. Formulas very like this, as far as a bright shield can be seen, as far as a white horse can be seen, occur in German documents (grimm, D. R. A. 74, 105 in 4th cd., The distance to which a mans voice will carry is perhaps a commoner measure: op. Cit. 76 cp. Baden Powell, Indian Village Communities, 12. Still more frequent. Is that to which a hammer, axe, spear or staff sometimes an implement of husbandry, or even a stone or clod of earth - can be thrown: Grimm, eff. S.v. Wwf. The lord of Mainz had jurisdiction as far as he could ride out into the Rhine and throw a smith's hammer: according to some authorities he was to do this in his proper person.
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