 | Elijah Paine, United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - 1827 - 748 strani
...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...possession of it, and to use it according to their own discre* tion. But their rights to complete sovereignty as independent nations, were necessarily diminished.... | |
 | Jeremiah Evarts - 1829 - 122 strani
...Again : " They [the original inhabitants] were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, icith a legal as well as just claim to retain possession...and to use it according to their own discretion." p. 574. Yet, as the Indians could not sell to foreign nations, except to the discoverers and those... | |
 | Jeremiah Evarts - 1829 - 122 strani
...and he will find, that the Court said of the '* original inhabitants " of this continent generally, " They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as iceu as just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion." This... | |
 | Jeremiah Evarts - 1829 - 122 strani
...574, and he will find, that the Court said of the " original inhabitants" of this continent generally, "They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as weu as just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion." This... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 96 strani
...Supreme Court declared of the " original inhabitants," without restriction, of this continent, that " they were admitted to be the rightful occupants of...and to use it according to their own discretion." " This is said, be it remembered, (we quote the remarks of William Penn) respecting Indians generally,... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1830 - 326 strani
...THE SUPREME COCRT OF THE UNITED STATES. The Court say, " The original inhabitants of this continent were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the...and to use it according to their own. discretion." Agam : — " If an individual might extinguish the Indian title for his own benefit, or, in other words,... | |
 | Cherokee Nation, Richard Peters - 1831 - 332 strani
...take 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 they are here called... | |
 | James Kent - 1832 - 536 strani
...exclusive right to grant a title to the soil, subject only to the Indian right of occupancy. The natives were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the...it, and to use it according to their own discretion, though not to dispose of the soil at their own will, except to the government, claiming the right of... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 540 strani
...of occupancy, or use in 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 1 " Ut fides Catholica, et Christiana Religio nostris prffisertim temporibus exaltetur, Sic., ac barbare... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1837 - 738 strani
...of occupancy, or use in the soil, which was subordinate to the ultimate dominion of the discoverer. They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of...it, and to use it according to their own discretion. In a certain sense, they were permitted to exercise rights of sovereignty over it. They might sell... | |
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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... 
