| Illinois State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1887 - 414 pages
...and the ordinance of 1787 save to the Freneh and Canadian inhabitants and other settlers of Kaskaskia their laws and customs relative to the descent and conveyance of property, these questions will perhaps sometime have tobe determined by the French law in that regard as it existed... | |
| Michigan Political Science Association - Political science - 1897 - 460 pages
...the other settlers in the few scattered villages northwest of the Ohio should have reserved to them their laws and customs relative to the descent and conveyance of property. Moreover, the Ordinance contains several statements that seem inconsistent with the idea of the utter... | |
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