BSL 313 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: High Water Mark, Illinois Central Railroad, Tide

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Case 1: martin v. the lessee of waddell. States have sovereignty over their own coasts. Public right of navigation and fishing (and commerce) Equal footing doctrine= once territory is admitted as a state, they are deemed to have the same sovereignty and property rights as the original 13 states, federal government can"t give away your land anymore: exceptions: Cannot claim land back if it was given away when the area was still a territory (prior to statehood) By general rule: being given piece of property on the water does not automatically grant adjacent submerged lands- own only up to mean high water line (mhwl) Case 4: illinois central railroad v. illinois (1892) Court determined that state can never give away an entire body of water that the state owns, leaving the rest of the public with no part of it. Rr case, can"t give away submerged lands unless: Instance of parcels mentioned for improvement & navigation of waters.

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