 | State Historical Society of Wisconsin - 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.... | |
 | Charles Deane - Massachusetts - 1873 - 36 pages
...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...America, from its discovery to the present day, proves, we think, the universal recognition of these principles. " Spain did not rest her title solely on the... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1873 - 598 pages
...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...America, from its discovery to the present day, proves, we think, the universal recognition of these principles. " Spain did not rest her title solely on the... | |
 | Virginia. Commission on Boundary Lines (1870-1874) - Maryland - 1873 - 476 pages
...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...America, from its discovery to the present day, proves, we think, the universal recognition of these principles. "The charter granted to Sir Humphrey Gilbert,... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 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... | |
 | Joseph Hodgson - Confederate States of America - 1876 - 566 pages
...asserted the ultimate dominion to be in themselves : and claimed and exercised as a conveyance of this ultimate dominion, a power to grant the soil while...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... | |
 | Joseph Hodgson - Confederate States of America - 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 - Constitutional law - 1878 - 474 pages
...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...subject only to the Indian right of occupancy. The United States have unequivocally 1,cceded to the great and broad rule by which its civilized inhabitants... | |
 | Lurton Dunham Ingersoll - Cabinet officers - 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 - Cabinet officers - 1879 - 624 pages
...asserted the ultimate right 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 conveyed a title to the grantees, subject only to the Indian right of occupancy. The history of America,... | |
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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... 
