 | United States. Supreme Court - 1823 - 756 pages
...Europe were eager to appropriate to themselves so much of it as they could respectively acquire. It.« vast extent offered an ample field to the ambition...authority, it was made, against all other European governments, which title might be consummated by possession. The exclusion of all other Europeans,... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1830 - 326 pages
...nations of Europe, on the discovery of this continent, by which they should be mutually regulated, was, that discovery gave title to the government by...authority it was made, against all other European governments, which title might be consummated by possession. As a consequence, the nation acquiring... | |
 | Cherokee Nation, Richard Peters - 1831 - 332 pages
...they could respectively acquire. Its vast extent offered an ample field to the ambition and enterprize of all ; and the character and religion of its inhabitants...authority it was made, against all other European governments, which title might be consummated by possession. " The exclusion of all other Europeans... | |
 | 1832 - 496 pages
...between themselves. This principle suggested by the actual state of things, was, "that disi covcry gave title to the government by whose subjects or...authority it was made, against all other European governments, which title might be consummated by possession."* This principle, acknowledged by all... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1832 - 720 pages
...explicit to he/ misunderstood. ' This principle was, that discovery gave title to the Govern1iJmi liy whose subjects or by whose authority it was made, against all other European Governments, which title might be consummated by possession.' Those relations which were to subsist... | |
 | Calvin Colton - 1833 - 408 pages
...their respective rights as between themselves. This principle, suggested by the actual state of things, was " that discovery gave title to the Government...authority it was made, against all other European Governments, which title might be consummated by possession."* This principle, acknowledged by all... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1833 - 708 pages
...their respective rights is between themselves. This principle, suggested by the actual state of thins*. was, ' that discovery gave title to the government...authority it was made, against all other European governments, which title might be consummated by possession.'* This principle, acknowledged by all... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1833 - 712 pages
...their respective rights as between themselves. This principle, suggested by the actual state of things, was, ' that discovery gave title to the government...authority it was made, against all other European governments, which title might be consummated by possession" This principle, acknowledged by all European^,... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 540 pages
...the poles, so far as it was not then possessed by any Christian prince.2 § 6. The principle, then, that discovery gave title to the government, by whose...authority it was made, against all other European governments, being once established, it followed almost as a matter of course, that every government... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1833 - 710 pages
...their respective rights aa between themselves. This principle, suggested by the actual state of things, was, ' that discovery gave title to the government...subjects or by whose authority it was made, against nil other European governments, which title might be consummated by possession." This principle, acknowledged... | |
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But, as they were all in pursuit of nearly the same object, it was necessary, in order to avoid conflicting settlements, and consequent war with each other, to establish a principle which all should acknowledge as the law by which the right of acquisition,... 
