Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, Volume 1; Volume 68W.H. & O.H. Morrison, 1870 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... California . TENTH . CALIFORNIA AND OREGON . 1835 . January 9th . PRESIDENT JACKSON 1837 . March 4th . PRESIDENT JACKSON , 1845 . February 14th . PRESIDENT TYLER . 1846 . August 4th . PRESIDENT POLK . 1858 . January 12th . PRESIDENT ...
... California . TENTH . CALIFORNIA AND OREGON . 1835 . January 9th . PRESIDENT JACKSON 1837 . March 4th . PRESIDENT JACKSON , 1845 . February 14th . PRESIDENT TYLER . 1846 . August 4th . PRESIDENT POLK . 1858 . January 12th . PRESIDENT ...
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... California , having , on the 10th of the same month , been appointed one of the Justices of this court , a new allotment of circuits was made , and he assigned to the Tenth . PREFACE . No volume of reports with whose history I ( vii )
... California , having , on the 10th of the same month , been appointed one of the Justices of this court , a new allotment of circuits was made , and he assigned to the Tenth . PREFACE . No volume of reports with whose history I ( vii )
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... California Circuit he was largely indebted for assistance in pre- paring several of the California survey cases ; cases which , with the peculiar system of original titles prevailing in regions ob- tained by us from the Mexican republic ...
... California Circuit he was largely indebted for assistance in pre- paring several of the California survey cases ; cases which , with the peculiar system of original titles prevailing in regions ob- tained by us from the Mexican republic ...
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... California had no jurisdiction to supervise and correct the action of the Surveyor - General of California , in surveying claims under Mexican grants confirmed by the decrees of the Board of Commissioners created by the act of March 3d ...
... California had no jurisdiction to supervise and correct the action of the Surveyor - General of California , in surveying claims under Mexican grants confirmed by the decrees of the Board of Commissioners created by the act of March 3d ...
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... California , whose duty it shall be to cause all private claims which shall be finally confirmed to be accurately surveyed , and to furnish plats of the same . " The action of the surveyor in this respect was not in terms made subject ...
... California , whose duty it shall be to cause all private claims which shall be finally confirmed to be accurately surveyed , and to furnish plats of the same . " The action of the surveyor in this respect was not in terms made subject ...
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