| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - Panama - 1977 - 448 pages
...were necessarily diminished, and their power to dispose of the soil at their own will, to whomsoever they pleased, was denied by the original fundamental...discovery gave exclusive title to those who made it. "While the different nations of Europe respected the right of the natives, as occupants, they asserted... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - Canal Zone - 1977 - 446 pages
...dominion to be in themselves ; and claimed and exercised, as a consequence of this ultimate 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, subject only to the Indian... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1987 - 1080 pages
...were necessarily diminished, and their power to dispose of the soil at their own will, to whomsoever they pleased, was denied by the original fundamental...discovery gave exclusive title to those who made it." Johnson v. Mclntosh, 8 Wheat. 543, 573-574 (1823). 'Madison cited the National Government's inability... | |
| E. Lauterpacht, C. J. Greenwood - Law - 1987 - 768 pages
...were necessarily diminished, and their power to dispose of the soil at their own will, to whomsoever they pleased, was denied by the original fundamental...discovery gave exclusive title to those who made it. While the different nations of Europe respected the right of the natives, as occupants, they asserted... | |
| L. C. Green, Olive Patricia Dickason - History - 1989 - 324 pages
...were necessarily diminished, and their power to dispose of the soil, at their own will, to whomsoever they pleased, was denied by the original fundamental...discovery gave exclusive title to those who made it. While the different nations of Europe respected the rights of the natives as occupants, they asserted... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs - Child welfare - 1989 - 682 pages
...possession of the soil, tribes did not enjoy and could not convey complete title to the land because of the fundamental principle that "discovery gave exclusive title to those who made it." This decision placed upon the United States government the burden of granting title to Natives or extinguishing... | |
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