 | Joseph M. White - Land grants - 1836 - 50 pages
...general principle: " His Ca'.holic Majesty cedes to the United States. in full property and sovereignly, all the territories which belong to him, situated...property belonging to its inhabitants. — The King cedes only that which belonged to him. Lands he liad previously granted were not his to cede. Neither party... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1838 - 850 pages
...conquest, the conqueror does no more than displace the sovereign, and assume dominion over the country. " A cession of territory is never understood to be a cession of the property of the inhabitants. The king cedes only that which belongs to him ; lands he had previously granted,... | |
 | Joseph M. White - Colonies - 1839 - 776 pages
...the territories which belong to him, situated to the eastward of the Mississippi, by the name of the East and West Florida." A cession of territory is...property belonging to its inhabitants. The king cedes only that which belongs to him. Lands he had previously granted were not his to cede. Neither party... | |
 | Joseph M. White - Colonies - 1839 - 766 pages
...to be a cession of the property belonging to its inhabitants. The king cedes only that which belongs to him. Lands he had previously granted were not his to cede. Neither party so understood the cession. Neither party could consider itself as attempting wrong to individuals,... | |
 | Charles Bishop Goodrich - United States - 1853 - 364 pages
...and their rights of property remain undisturbed. A cession of territory by one sovereign to another, is never understood to be a cession of the property belonging to its inhabitants.* Another mode of acquiring territory is by purchase; the course and effect of which is familiar, and... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional law - 1854 - 674 pages
...Peters, 319. reign, and assume dominion over the country : 7 Peters, 86 (10 Peters, 720, 729, passim). " A cession of territory is never understood to be a cession of property of the inhabitants. The king cedes only that which belongs to him ; lands he had previously... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1858 - 744 pages
...It would have remained the same as under the ancient sovereign. * * A cession of territory is ncver understood to be a cession of the property belonging...cedes that only which belonged to him. Lands he had granted were not his to cede. Neither party could so understand the cession ; neither party could consider... | |
 | Richard Peters - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 836 pages
...conquest, the conqueror does no more than replace the sovereign, and assume dominion over the country. "A cession of territory is never understood to be a cession of the property of the inhabitants. The king cedes only that which belongs to him ; lands he had previously granted,... | |
 | Daniel Gardner - International and municipal law - 1860 - 740 pages
...country. (7 Pet. 86. 10 Ib. 720.) By cession, the court say, the king cedes only that which belongs to him ; lands he had previously granted were not his to cede. (12 Pet. 438, 440. 15 Ib. 182.) In Strother vs. Lucas, (12 Pet. 440,) the court say: That in re-affirming... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1861 - 596 pages
...titles, at least so far as they were consummate, might be asserted in the courts of the United States. A cession of territory is never understood to be a cession of the property of the inhabitants. The King cedes that only which belongs to him; lands that he had previously sold... | |
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A cession of territory is never understood to be a cession of the property belonging to its inhabitants. The king cedes that only which belonged to him. Lands he had previously granted were not his to cede. 
