boundary
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 209 U.S. 473 - Central Railroad Company of New Jersey v. Mayor and Aldermen of Jersey City · 1908Most cited · 66 citing opinions
sovereignty
It appears to us plain on the face of the agreement that the dominant fact is the establishment of the boundary line. The boundary line is the line of sovereignty, and the establishment of it is not satisfied, but is contradicted, by the suggestion that the agreement simply gives the ownership of the land under water on the New Jersey side to that state as a private owner of land lying within the state of New York. ... We repeat that boundary means sovereignty, since, in modern times, sovereignty is mainly territorial, unless a different meaning clearly appears.
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- ORIGINAL
The description of a boundary may be a matter of construction, which belongs to the court; but the application of the evidence in the ascertainment of it as thus described and interpreted, with a view to its location and settlement, belongs to the jury.
as jury question