 | Richard Peters - 1860 - 792 pages
...as occupants, but asserted the ultimate 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 the possession of the natives. Ibid. 15. By the treaty between Great Britain and the United States,... | |
 | Travers Twiss - 1861 - 414 pages
...occupants, they asserted the ultimate dominion to be in themselves ; and obtained and exercised, as a consequence of this ultimate dominion, a power to grant the soil, while yet in the possession of the Natives. These grants have been understood by all to convey a title to the grantees,... | |
 | State Historical Society of Wisconsin - 1872 - 518 pages
...asserted the ultimate dominion to be in themselves, and exercised the power to grant the soil while in the possession of the natives. These grants have been understood by all to convey the title subject to the Indian right of occupancy. This Government has always acted on the same principle.... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1873 - 542 pages
...themselves; and claimed and exercised, as a consequence of this ultimate dominion, a power to grunt the soil, while yet in possession of the natives....grants have been understood by all to convey a title to ihe grantees, subject only to the Indian right of occupancy. " I he history of America, from its discovery... | |
 | Virginia. Commission on Boundary Lines (1870-1874) - 1873 - 476 pages
...as occupants, they asserted the ultimate 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 the possession of the natives. These grants have been understood by all to convey a title to the grantees,... | |
 | Joseph Hodgson - 1876 - 540 pages
...the natives. These grants have been understood by all, say the Supreme Court of the United States, to convey a title to the grantees, subject only to the Indian right of occupancy. Spain, in all her discussions with Prance, Great Britain and the United States, based her title on... | |
 | Orlando Bump - 1878 - 474 pages
...as occupants, they asserted the ultimate dominion to be in themselves, and claimed and exercised, as a consequence of this ultimate dominion, a power to...subject only to the Indian right of occupancy. The United States have unequivocally acceded to the great and broad rule by which its civilized inhabitants... | |
 | Lurton Dunham Ingersoll - 1879 - 630 pages
...ultimate dominion, a power to grant the soil while yet in possession of the natives. These grants conveyed a title to the grantees, subject only to the Indian...America, from its discovery to the present day, proves the universal recognition of these principles.1 Upon these principles, which substantially amounted... | |
 | Lurton Dunham Ingersoll - 1879 - 624 pages
...natives as occupants, they asserted the ultimate right to be in themselves, and claimed and exercised, as a consequence of this ultimate dominion, a power to...while yet in possession of the natives. These grants conveyed a title to the grantees, subject only to the Indian right of occupancy. The history of America,... | |
 | Benjamin Vaughan Abbott - 1879 - 1054 pages
...but asserted the ultimate dominion to be in themselves; and claimed and exercised, as a consequent to this ultimate dominion, a power to grant the soil while yet in the possession of the natives. Johnson i<. Mclntosh, 8 Wheat 643. 2. In equity jurisprudence, discovery... | |
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While the different nations of Europe respected the right of the natives, as occupants, they asserted the ultimate 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... 
