| United States. Congress. House. Public lands - 1947 - 474 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... | |
| Rhode Island. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 942 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. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1959 - 1160 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 grantee, subject only to the Indian... | |
| New Jersey Historical Society - New Jersey - 1917 - 326 pages
...ultimate dominion to be in themselves, and claimed and exercised as 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... | |
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