| United States. Supreme Court - 1823 - 756 lapas
...entirely disregarded ; but were necessarily, to a considerable extent, impaired. They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion ; but their... | |
| Elijah Paine, United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - 1827 - 748 lapas
...relations that were to exist between such government and the natives. The Indians were considered as being the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discre* tion. But their... | |
| Jeremiah Evarts - 1829 - 122 lapas
...settlements upon it." 8 Wheaton, p. 573. Again : " They [the original inhabitants] were admitted to he the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion." p. 574. Yet,... | |
| Jeremiah Evarts - 1829 - 122 lapas
...which land is at present in the possession of the Cherokees, no more proves that the Cherokees are not the " rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as just claim to retain possession of it," than the fact that A. is seized in fee of land, of which B.... | |
| United States. Congress - 1830 - 326 lapas
...they either possessed or claimed to possess. The Indians were always " admitted by the crown to be the rightful occupants of. the soil, with a legal, as well as just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion," and of which... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 96 lapas
...the " original inhabitants," without restriction, of this continent, that " they were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion." " This is... | |
| Cherokee Nation, Richard Peters - 1831 - 332 lapas
...itfrom them by force; not to compel them to sell it: for, " they were admitted, say the court, to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as just claim to retain the possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion." Although... | |
| James Kent - 1832 - 536 lapas
...a title to the soil, subject only to the Indian right of occupancy. The natives were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion, though not... | |
| Joseph Story - 1833 - 800 lapas
...the soil, which was subordinate to the ultimate dominion of the discoverer. They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal, as well as just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion. In a certain... | |
| United States. Congress - 1837 - 738 lapas
...the soil, which was subordinate to the ultimate dominion of the discoverer. They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as just claim to retain . possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion. In a certain... | |
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