Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ... 255. Determination of boundaries as between adjoining owners. When the property of two adjoining owners abuts on shallow water or tide-flats, and the shore-line is concave or otherwise irregular in its contour, it is sometimes a matter of difficulty to fix the proper division line between their interests in such flats. According to a late case in Wisconsin, the rule to determine the division line between adjoining holdings in the shallow waters of a navigable bay, of owners of land bordering thereon, and located on a cove, is as follows: (1) Measure the whole extent of the shore line and compute how many rods, yards, or feet each riparian proprietor owns thereon. (2) Divide the navigable water line into as many equal parts as such shore line contains rods, yards, or feet, and then appropriate to each proprietor as many of such parts of such navigable water line as he owns rods, yards, or feet of the shore line. (3) Draw a line from the point of division on the shore line to the point thus determined as the point of division on the navigable water line. Where the navigable water line and the shore line are elongated by deep indentations and sharp projections, the meander line, as located by the government survey, and the actual navigable water line should be discarded, and the general available shore line and the general trend of the navigable water line adopted.132 In Michigan, as a solution of the same problem, the following formula is proposed: From the extreme points of the cove draw lines at right angles to the shore or meander lines meeting at such points, bisect the angles formed by such lines, and extend the bisecting lines to navigable water Northern Pine-Land Co. v. Pick. 45, and has since been Bigelow, (Wis.) 54 N. W...."
