 | United States. Supreme Court - 1887 - 1244 páginas
...natives. They accordingly mode grants of lands occupied by the Indians, and these grants were held to convey a title to the grantees, subject only to the Indian right of occupancy. The chief justice adds that the history of America, from its discovery to the present day, proves the universal... | |
 | 1887 - 1458 páginas
...natives. They accordingly made grants of lands occupied by the Indians, and these grants were held to convey a title to the grantees, subject only to the Indian right of occupancy. The chief justice adds that the history of America, from its discovery to the present day, proves the universal... | |
 | 1909 - 1286 páginas
...claimed and exercised, as a consequence of this ultimate dominion, a power to grant the soil, white yet in possession of the natives. These grants have...think, the universal recognition of these principles." And again, at page 587 et seq. of 8 Wheat. (5 L. Ed. 681): "The United States, then, have unequivocally... | |
 | Charles Cornelius Painter - 1888 - 124 páginas
...in the natives. They accordingly made grants of land occupied by Indians, and these grants were held to convey a title to the grantees, subject only to the Indian right of occupancy. (Butts vs. NPRR Co., 7 Supreme Court, 100; Butcher zv. Witherly, 95 US, 517.) Among all the sovereigns... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs - 1888 - 612 páginas
...in the natives. They accordingly made grants of land occupied by Indians, and these grants were held to convey a title to the grantees, subject only to the Indian right of occupancy. (Buttz vs. NPRR Co., 7 Supreme Court, 100 ; Butcher vs. Witherly, 95 US, 517.) Among all the sovereigns... | |
 | John Ordronaux - 1891 - 716 páginas
...exercised, as a consequence of this ultimate dominion, a power to grant the soil, while yet in the possession of the natives. These grants have been...the grantees, subject only to the Indian right of occupancy."2 By the law of national continuity in the possession of the soil, the United States not... | |
 | Freeman Snow - 1893 - 636 páginas
...asserted the ultimate dominion to be in themselves ; and claimed and exercised, as a- consequence of this ultimate dominion, a power to grant the soil, while...grantees, subject only to the Indian right of occupancy. " Spain did not rest her title solely on the grant of the Pope. Her discussions respecting boundary,... | |
 | 1893 - 626 páginas
...asserted the ultimate right to be in themselves; and claimed and exercised, as a consequence of this ultimate dominion, a power to grant the soil while...grantees, subject only to the Indian right of occupancy." These propositions are asserted over and over again by text-writers and by courts. Mr. Washburn says... | |
 | Henry Wager Halleck - 1893 - 628 páginas
...power to grant the soil while yet in the possession of the natives. These grants have been understood to convey a title to the grantees, subject only to the Indian right of occupancy. The Indian tribes were not conceded the natural capacity to hold absolute title to land, except in cases... | |
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While the different nations of Europe respected the right of the natives, as occupants, they asserted the ultimate dominion to be in themselves ; and claimed and exercised, as a consequence of this ultimate dominion, a power to grant the soil, while yet... 
