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water boundary

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From 59 U.S. 150 - Jones v. Johnston · 1855Most cited · 81 citing opinions

If the call for the southern boundary, instead of being a lake, which is a shifting line, had been a permanent object, such as a street or wall, there could not be two opinions as to the location. And yet the water-line, though it may gradually and imperceptibly change, is just as fixed a boundary in the eye of the law as the former.