James v. Fla. Dep't of Corr.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[T]he presumed intent of the grantor [is] to convey only as much land as he actually owned.”
• “Under proper circumstances, a counterclaim may be treated as the defense of set off.”
• “[Property rights in the islands are rooted in the law existing while the islands were under Danish sovereignty, which law remained in force even after the transfer of sovereignty to the United States in 1917.”
• because the shoreline was public property under Danish law it remains public, and a deed’s “boundary description ‘the sea’ should reflect the presumed intent of the grantor to convey only as much land as he actually owned”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).