| United States. Congress - Cherokee Indians - 1830 - 326 pages
...Johnson against M'Intosh, it was decided that, while the different nations of Europe respected the rights of the natives as occupants, they asserted the ultimate...themselves, and claimed and exercised, as a consequence of thia ultimate dominion, a power to grant the soil while yet in^the possession of the natives. These... | |
| Cherokee Nation, Richard Peters - Cherokee Indians - 1831 - 332 pages
...by the original fundamental principle, that discovery gave exclusive 'title to those who made it. " While the different nations of Europe respected the...themselves; and claimed and exercised as a consequence of the ultimate dominion a power to grant the soil while yet in possession of the natives. These grants... | |
| Joseph Blunt - History - 1832 - 720 pages
...other power could interpose between them. While the different nations of Europe respected the rights of the natives as occupants, they asserted the ultimate...yet in the possession of the natives. These grants hare been understood by all to convey a title to the grantees, subject only to the Indian rights of... | |
| Jonathan Elliot - Diplomatic and consular service, American - 1834 - 776 pages
...regulated by themselves. While the different nations of Europe, respected the rights of the. natires as occupants, they asserted the ultimate dominion...be in themselves; and claimed, and exercised as a con. sequence of.this ultimate dominion, a power to grant the soil, •while yet in possession of the... | |
| United States. Congress - Law - 1837 - 738 pages
...dtfaeto. But, notwithstanding this occupancy, the European discoverers claimed and exercised the right to grant the soil, while yet in the possession of the natives, subject, however, to their right of occupancy; and the title so granted was universally admitted to... | |
| John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...denied by the original, fundamental principle that discovery gave exclusive title to those who made it. While the different nations of Europe respected the...dominion, a power to grant the soil, while yet in possession of the natives. These grants have been understood by all to convey a title to the grantees,... | |
| 1844 - 778 pages
...• " But, notwithstanding this occupancy, the European discoverers claimed and exercised the right to grant the soil while yet in the possession of the natives, subject, however, to their right of occu. pancy ; and the title so granted was universally admitted... | |
| United States - Session laws - 1845 - 816 pages
...but in no instance disregarded. The Europeans respected the right of the natives as occupants, but asserted the ultimate dominion to be in themselves;...this ultimate dominion, a power to grant the soil white yet in the possession of the natives. Ibid. By the treaty between Great Britain and the United... | |
| United States - Law - 1846 - 882 pages
...occupants, but asserted the ultimate dominion to be in themselves; and claimed and exerclsed, as n consequence of this ultimate dominion, a power to...the soil while yet in the possession of the natives. Ihid. By the treaty between Great Britain and the United States, which concluded bur revolution, the... | |
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