Legality of Cannabis by U.S. Jurisdiction

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It is established beyond cavil that the State owns title to the submerged land under the navigable waters of the State.

- in Bd. of Pub. Works v. Larmar Corp., 1971 and 2 similar citations

In Maryland, the owner of land bounded by tide water is authorized, according to various statutes beginning in 1745, to build wharves or other improvements upon the flats in front of his land, and to acquire a right in the land so improved.

- in Shively v. Bowlby, 1894 and one similar citation

Howard 6 Greenl. 452. have been made with the wife during coverture, the buildings belonged to her, and could not be applied to payment of his debts.

- in The American Law of Real Property and one similar citation

This would have been so, one might argue, because prior to the right of appeal granted in 1852 and the establishment of the Land Office as a court of record in 1853 the appellee's 1848 patent was not conclusive because the "patentee could only take subject to all prior claims, encumbrances and equities."

- in Md. Coal & Realty Co. v. Eckhart, 1975 and one similar citation

After the Revolution all lands which had belonged to the Lord Proprietary became absolutely vested in the State and were held for the public benefit; "***[N] ot, however, as under the government of the province, as the estate and for the private emolument of an individual, but for the use of the public***."

- in Bd. of Pub. Works v. Larmar Corp., 1971 and one similar citation

—the question was who was the riparian owner, and as such entitled to wharf out into the Potomac River in the District of Columbia under the authority to do so expressly conferred under the laws of Maryland in force in the District.

- in Shively v. Bowlby, 1894

Not all the land lying beneath the navigable waters is owned by the State because during the first couple of hundred years of our history both the Lord Proprietor and the State granted private individuals patents in fee to some of these lands.

- in Harbor Island Marina v. BOARD OF CTY. COMMISSIONERS OF CALVERT CTY., 1979

"The land office has always been, as it now is, the general market in which all public lands have been offered for sale; and into which any one capable of holding real estate might come and purchase according to the prescribed rules and terms of sale.... If the rules of the office were complied with, and the purchase money paid, a grant for the land was issued as of …

- in Md. Coal & Realty Co. v. Eckhart, 1975