Terrier

In English Law. A roll, cata- uf’rs Ass’n, 60 Fed. 428.

Parliament “may logue, or survey of lands, belouging either to extend the realm how far soever it may a single person or a town, in which are stat- please;” 2 Ex. D. 152. Under the Behring ed the quantity of acres, the names of the Sea Arbitration, it was decided that the tenants, and the like. It may be an ancient United States cannot protect seals in the open document; 12 M. & W. 205. sea beyond the three-mile limit. One of the old records in the office of the It would not be unreasonable for the Unitrecorder of deeds of Philadelphia County is ed States to assume control of the waters on still called the Germantown Terrier. In it the coast included within distant headlands, will be found the Latin Dedication of Pas- as from Cape Ann to Cape Cod, Nantucket torius, quoted by Whittier in the Pennsyl- to Montauk Point, and from the latter to the vania Pilgrim.

Capes of the Delaware; 1 Kent 30.

By the ecclesiastical law, an inquiry is “As between nations, the minimum limit directed to be made from time to time of of the territorial jurisdiction of a nation the temporal rights of the clergymen of every parish, and to be returned into the over tide waters is a marine league from reg- the coast, and bays wholly within its terriistry of the bishop: this return is denominated a terrier. 1 Phill. Ev. 602. tory which do not exceed two marine leagues at the mouth are within this limit.”

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