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" should be regulated as between themselves. The principle was that the discovery gave title to the Government by whose subjects or by whose authority it was made, against all other European Governments, which title might be consummated by possession. "
The Cambridge History of the British Empire - Page 190
edited by - 1929
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court, Volume 21

United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1823 - 756 pages
...acquisition, which they all asserted, should be regulated as between themselves. This principle was, that discovery gave title to the government by whose subjects,...governments, which title might be consummated by possession. The exclusion of all other Europeans, neces- Discorery, &• warily gave to the nation making the discovery...
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American Annual Register, Volume 6

Joseph Blunt - History - 1832 - 720 pages
...misunderstood. ' This principle was, that discovery gave title to the Government by whose subject* or by whose authority it was made, against all other...Governments, which title might be consummated by possession.' Those relations which were to subsist between the discoverer and the natives, were to be regulated...
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American Annual Register of Public Events, Volume 7

Joseph Blunt - History, Modern - 1833 - 712 pages
...respective rights as between themselves. This principle, suggested by the actual state of things, was,' that discovery gave title to the government by whose subjects...governments, which title might be consummated by possession" This principle, acknowledged by all European^, because it was the interest of all to acknowledge it,...
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Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a ..., Volume 2

Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 800 pages
...poles, so far as it was not then possessed by any Christian prince. ^ 5. The principle, then, that discovery gave title to the government, by whose subjects...was made, against all other European governments, being once established, it followed almost as a matter of course, that every government within the...
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Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania, Volumes 9-10

Pennsylvania - 1832 - 858 pages
...respective rights as between themselves. This principle, suggested by the actual state of things, was " that discovery gave title to the Government by whose subjects...which title might be consummated by possession."* The relation between the Europeans and the natives was determined in each case by the particular Government...
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The Family Library (Harper)., Volume 160

Child rearing - 1845 - 436 pages
...continent at nearly the same time, the principle adopted for deciding their respective rights was, " that discovery gave title to the government by whose subjects...which title might be consummated by possession."* The admission of this principle gave to the nation making a discovery, as an inevitable consequence,...
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The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America, Volume 7

United States - Law - 1848 - 666 pages
...acquisition, which they all asserted, should be regulated as between themselves. This principle was, that discovery gave title to the government by whose subjects,...governments, which title might be consummated by possession. Those relations which were to exist between the discoverer and the natives, were to be regulated by...
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Addresses on Miscellaneous Subjects

James Stuart Murray Anderson - Great Britain - 1849 - 468 pages
...their own free consent 4 .' Nevertheless, the principle was established, from the very first, ' that discovery gave title to the government, by whose subjects,...was made, against all other European governments.' And not only so. The principle has been acted upon ever since of admitting the natives, indeed, 'to...
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Pioneer History of the Holland Purchase of Western New York: Embracing Some ...

Orsamus Turner - Allegany County (N.Y.) - 1850 - 710 pages
...general principles; and upon questions of fact, involving priority of discovery, occupation, &c. " Discovery gave title to the government, by whose subjects,...governments, which title might be consummated by possession. Hence, although a vacant country belonged to those who first discovered it, and who acknowledge no...
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The Science of Government as Exhibited in the Institutions of the United ...

Charles Bishop Goodrich - United States - 1853 - 364 pages
...all asserted, should be regulated between themselves. This principle was, that discovery gave right to the government by whose subjects or by whose authority...governments, which title might be consummated by possession." Discovery followed by possession gives to the nation making the discovery the sole right of acquiring...
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