 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...  Papers - Page 57by British and American Joint Commission for the Final Settlement of the Claims of the Hudson's Bay and Puget's Sound Agricultural Companies - 1868Full view - About this book
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - Panama - 1977 - 448 pages
...no instance, entirely disregarded ; but were necessarily, to a considerable extent, impaired. They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal aa well as just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion ;... | |
 | Lawrence Rosen - History - 244 pages
...their land. 21 US at 573. It was conceded — seemingly by all Europeans — that the Indians were "the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as just claim to retain possession of it. . . ." But the discoverer-nation possessed the power to extinguish that title or to recognize the Indian... | |
 | Menno Boldt, J. Anthony Long, Leroy Little Bear - Social Science - 1985 - 424 pages
...exclusive right to acquire the land from the native tribes. But under this convention the Indian tribes 'were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the...and to use it according to their own discretion.' Marshall referred to the Indian tenure as a 'right of occupancy' to stress the fact of international... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1987 - 1080 pages
...in no instance, entirely disregarded; but were necessarily, to a considerable extent, impaired. They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the...it, and to use it according to their own discretion; but their rights to complete sovereignty, as independent nations, were necessarily diminished, and... | |
 | Charles F. Wilkinson - History - 1987 - 244 pages
...infra. 4o. See, eg, Johnson v. Mclntosh, 21 US (8 Wheat.) 543, 574 (1923) (describing Indian tribes as "the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal...as well as just claim to retain possession of it"); Oneida Indian Nation v. County of Oneida, 414 US 661, 667 (1974) ("It very early became accepted doctrine... | |
 | E. Lauterpacht, C. J. Greenwood - Law - 1987 - 768 pages
...Johnson v. M'Intosh is that on discovery or on conquest the aborigines of newly-found lands were conceded to be the rightful occupants of the soil with a legal as well as a just claim to retain possession of it and to use it according to their own discretion, but their... | |
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