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From 62 U.S. 305 - Jacob Brown Jacob Nisswaner Fontaine Beckham John Unseld and George Moler v. Benjamin Huger · 1858Most cited · 76 citing opinions

In ascertaining the boundaries of surveys or patents, the universal rule is this: that wherever natural or permanent objects are embraced in the calls of either, these have absolute control, and both course and distance must yield to their influence.