| United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1823 - 756 pages
...express it. If the discovery be made, and possession of the country be taken, under the1 authority of an existing government, which is acknowledged by the emigrants, it is supposed to be equally well gettied, that the discovery is made for the. 'Whole nation, -that the country becomes a part' of the... | |
| United States - Session laws - 1845 - 816 pages
...by the emigrants, the discovery is made for the whole nation ; and the country becomes a part of the nation, and the vacant soil is to be disposed of by...the constitutional power to dispose of the national domain. Ibid. The decision of the register and receiver of a land-office, in the absence of fraud,... | |
| Joseph Kinnicut Angell - Riparian rights - 1847 - 492 pages
...discoverers, proceed to say, that " If the discovery be made and possession taken under the authority of an existing government which is acknowledged by the emigrants,...the constitutional power to dispose of the national dominions ; by that organ, in which all territory is vested by law. According to the theory of the... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 696 pages
...discoverers, proceed to say that : " If the discovery be made and possession taken under the authority of an existing government which is acknowledged by the emigrants,...government which has the constitutional power to dispose of th6 [ * 410 ] * national dominions ; by that organ, in which all territory is vested by law. According... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 700 pages
...discoverers, proceed to say that: " If the discovery be made and possession taken under the authority of an existing government which is acknowledged by the emigrants,...which has the constitutional power to dispose of the [ * 410 ] * national dominions ; by that organ, in which all territory is vested by law. According... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 948 pages
...of a discovery of an uninhahited country by persons who acknowledge some existing'government, says: "The discovery is made for the benefit of the whole...the constitutional power to dispose of the national dominions." And in Martin v. Waddett, 16 Pet. 409, Mr. Chief Justice TANEY cites this language, and... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 1878 pages
...government, says: "The discovery is made for the benefit of the whole nut ion; and the vacant soil is to lie disposed of by that organ of the government which...the constitutional power to dispose of the national dominions." And in Martin v. Waddell, 16 Pet. 409, Mr. Chief Justice TANEY cites this language, and... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1890 - 1166 pages
...said: "If the discovery be made, and possession of the country be taken, under the authority of an existing government, which is acknowledged by the...equally well settled that the discovery is made for the wholenation, * * * and that the vacant soil is to be disposed of by that organ of the government which... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 362 pages
...existing government, which is acknowledged by the emigrants, it is sup262 Johnson v. Mclntosh. posed to be equally well settled, that the discovery is made for the whole nation, that the country becomes a part of the nation, and that the vacant soil is to be disposed... | |
| John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1905 - 484 pages
...express it. If the discovery be made, and possession of the country be taken, under the authority of an existing government, which is acknowledged by the...equally well settled that the discovery is made for the whole nation, that the country becomes a part of the nation, and that the vacant soil is to be disposed... | |
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