Sale
Sale. An Agreement By Which One Of Two Contracting Parties, Called The Seller, Gives A Thing And Passes The Title To It, In Ex Change For A Certain Price In Current Money, To The Other Party, Whb Is Called The Buyer Or Purchaser, Who, On His Part, Agrees To Pay ...
Salvage
Salvage. In Marithne Law. A Compensation Given By The Maritime Law For Service Rendered In Saving Property Or Res Cuing It From Impending Peril On The Sea Or Wrecked On The Coast Of The Sea, Or, In The United States, On A Public Navigable River Or Lake, Where Inter-state Or ...
Salvor
Salvor. In Maritime Law. A Per Son Who Saves Property Or Rescues It From Im Pending Peril On The Sea Or When Wrecked On The Coast Of The Sea, Or, In The United States, On A Public Navigable River Or Lake Where Inter-state Commerce Is Carried On, And Who Is ...
Satisfaction Bankruptcy Compensation Confusion
Satisfaction; Bankruptcy; Compensation; Confusion; Defeasancej Delegation; Dis Charge Of A Contract; Extinction ' • Extin Guishment ; Former Recovery; Lapse Of Time J Novation ; Payment ; Release ; Re Scission ; Set-off. In Practice. A Form Of Action Which Lies To Recover A Sum Certain. 2 Greenleaf, Ev. 279. ...
Scire Facias
Scire Facias (lat.. That You' Make Known). . The Name Of A Writ (and Of The Whole Proceeding) Founded On Some Public Record. 2. Public Records,. To Which The Writ Is Ap. Plicable Are Of Two Clasees, And. Non Judicial. • Judicial Records Are Of Two Kinds, Judg, Ments In ...
Scire Fieri Inquiry
Scire Fieri Inquiry. In Eng Lish Law. The Name Of A Writ Formerly Used To Recover The Amount Of A Judgment From An Executor. The History Of The Origin Of The Writ Is As Fol. Lows. When On An Execution De Bold+) Teatatorie Against An Executor The Sheriff Returned Ntdia ...
Scription Limitations
Scription ; Limitations. Generally, In Computing Time, One Day Is Included And One Excluded, 2 P. A. Browne, Penn. 18; 4 T. B. Monr. Ky. 464 ; 26 Ala. N. S. 547 ; See 2 Harr. Del. 461 ; 5 Blackf. Ind. 319; 16 Ohio, 408; 10 Rich. So. C. ...
Se Defendendo
Se Defendendo (lat.). Defending Himself. Homicide Se Defendendo May Be Justifiable. Sea. The Ocean ; The Great Mass Of Water Vvhich Surrounds The Land, And Which Probably Extends From Pole To Pole, Covering Nearly Three-quarters Of' The Globe. Waters Within The Ebb And Fiow Of The Tide Are To Be ...
Seal
Seal. An Impression Upon Wax, Wafer, Or Some Other Tenacious Substance Capable Of Being Impressed. 5 Jails. N. Y. 239. Lord Coke Defines A Seal To Be Wax, With An Im Pression. 3 Inet. 169. "sigiilum," Says He, "eat Sera Impressa, Quia Sera Sine Impreasione Non Est Sigillutn.' The Definition ...
Seal_2
Seal. An Impression Upon Wax, Wafer, Or Some Other Tenacious Substance Capable Of Being Impressed. 5 Johna. N. Y. 239. Lord Coke Defines A Seal To Be Wax, With An Im Pression. 3 Inst. 169. "sigillurn,"" Says He, " E8t Ear° Impreaa, Quite Cera Sine Impreuione Non Ert Iigillum." The ...
Seals
Seals. In Louisiana. A Method Of Taking The Effects Of A Deceased Person Into Public Custody. 2. On The Death Of A Person, Aceording To The Laws' , Of Louisiana, If The Heir Wishes To Obtain The Benefit Of Inventory And The Delays For Deliberating, He Is Bound, As Soon ...
Search Warrant
Search-warrant. In Practice. A Warrant Requiring The Officer To Whom It Is Addressed To Search A House, Or Other Place, Therein Specified, For Property Therein Alleged To Have Been Stolen, And, If The Same Shall Be Found Upon Such Search, To Bring The Goods So Found, Together With The Body ...
Seaworthiness
Seaworthiness. Inrdaritime Law. The Sufficiency Of The Vessel In Ma Terials, Construction, Equipment, Officers, Men, And Outfit, For The Trade Or Service In Which It Is Employed. 2. Under A Marine Policy On Ship, Freight, Or Cargo, The Fitness For The Service Of The Vessel, If There Is No Provision ...
Seisin
Seisin. The Completion Of The Feudal Investiture, By Which The Tenant Was Admitted Into The Feud And Performed The Rites Of Ho Mage And Fealty. Stearns, Real Act. 2. Possession With An Intent On The Part Of Him Who Holds It To Claim A Freehold Interest. 8 N. H. 58 ...
Selectmen
Selectmen. The Name Of Certain Town Officers In Several States Of The United States, Who Are Invested By The Statutes Of The States With Extensive Powers For The Conduct Of The Town Business. In Criminal Law The Protection Of One's Person And Property From Injury. 2. A Man May Defend ...
Separation A Mensa Et
' Separation A Mensa Et Thoro: A Partial. Dissolution Of The Mar Riage Relation. By The Ecclesiastical Or Canon Law Of England, Which Bad Exclusive Jurisdiction.over Marriage And Divorce Marriage Was Regarded As A Sacrament And Indissoluble. This Doctrine Originated With The Church Of Rome, And.became Established In Eng Land ...
Sequestration
Sequestration. In Chancery Practice. A Writ Of Commission, Sometimes Directed To The Sheriff, But Usually To Four Or More Commissioners Of The Complainant's Own Nomination, Authorizing Them 'to Enter Upon The Real Or Personal Estate Of The De Fendant, And To Take The Rents, Issues, And Profits Into Their Own ...
Servitude
Ser.vitude. In Civil Law. The Subjection Of One Person To Another Person', Or Of A Person To A Thing, Or Of A Thing To A Person, Or Of A Thing To A Thing. A Right Which Subjects A Land Or Tenement To Some Service For The Use Of Another Land ...
Sessions Of The Peace
Sessions Of The Peace. /n English Law. Sittings Of Justices Of The Peace For The Execution Of The Powers Wnich Are Confided To Them As Such. Petty Sessions (or Petit Sessions) Are Sittings Held By One Or More Justices For The Trial Of Minor Offences, Admitting To Bail Prisoners Accused ...
Set Of Exchange
Set Of Exchange. The Different Parts Of A Bill Of Exchange, Taken Together. Each Part Is A Perfect Instrument By Itself; But The Parts Are Numbered Successively, And Upon Payment Of Any One The Others Become Useless. See Chitty, Bills, 1836 Ed. 175; Parsons, Notes & B. In Practice. A ...
Settlement
Settlement. A Residence Under Such Circumstances As To Entitle A Person Tc Support Or Assistance In Case Of Becoming A Pauper. 2. It Is Obtained In Various Ways, To Wit: By Birth; By The Legal Settlement Of The Father, In The Case Of Minor Children; By Marriage ; By Continued ...
Severance
Severance. The Separation Of A Part Of A Thing From Another: For Example, The Separation Of Machinery From A Mill Is A Severance, And In That Case The Machinery, Which While Annexed To The Mill *as Real Estate, Becomes By The Severance Personalty, Unless Such Severance Be Merely Temporary. 8 ...
Sheriff
Sheriff (sax.scyre, Shire, Reve, Keeper). A. County Officer Representing The Executive Or Administrative Power Of The State Within His County. The Office Is Said By Camden To Have Been Oreated By Alfred When He Divided England Into Counties; But Lord Coke Is Of Opinion That It Is Of Still Greater ...
Ship
Ship. A Vessel Employed In Navigation : For Example, The Terms The Ship's Papers, The Ship's Husband, Shipwreck, And The Like, Are Employed Whether The Vessel Referred To Be A Brig, A Schooner, A Sloop, Or A Three-masted Vessel. A Vessel With Three Masts, Employed In Navigation. 4 Wash. C. ...
Shipping Articles
Shipping Articles. An Agree Ment, In Writing Or Print, Between The Master And Seamen Or Mariners On Board His Vessel (except Such As Shall Be Apprenticed Or Ser Vant To Himself Or Owners), Declaring The Voyage Or Voyages, Term Or Terms Of Time, For Vrhich Such Seamen Or Mariners Shall ...
Ships Husband
Ship's Husband. In Maritime Law. An Agent Appointed By The Owner Of A Ship, And Invested With Authority To Make The Requisite Repairs And Attend To The Manage Ment, Equipment, And Other Concerns Of The Ship. He Is The General Agent Of The Owners In Relation To The Ship, And ...
Sign
Sign. In Contracts. A Token Of Any Thing ; A Note Or Token Given Without Words. 2. Contracts Are Express Or Implied. The Ex Press Nro Manifested Viva Voce Or By Writing; The Implied Are Shown By Silence, By Acts, Or By Signs. Among All Nations And At All Times, ...
Sion
Sion; Senvtts; Fneedom. Slavery Having Been Abolished In The 'united States, It Is Only As Affecting The Future Rights And Liabilities Of Those Formerly Slaves That The Elaborate Slave Codes Of Those States Re Cognizing The Status Can Be Of Interest Or Value. The Traffic In Slaves. Or The Buying ...
Slander
Slander. In Torts. Words, Spoken Or Written, Which Are Injnrious To The Charac Ter Of Another. 2. The Ground Of All Liability To An Action For Words Spoken Or Written Consists In 'in Jury To Character; And An Action May Be Maintained In The Following Cases. To Be Actionable In ...
Slave
Slave. One Over Whose Life, Liberty, And Property Another Has Unlimited Control. The Jag Vitce Et Necis Is Included In Pure Or Abso Lute Slavery. Such A Power Has No Founda Tion In Natural Law; And Hence The Justinian Code Declared It Contra Naturant Esse. Inst. 1. 4. 2. 2. ...
Slavery
Slavery. The Atatus Or Condition Of A Slave. 2. Slavery, Being A Peraonal Status, Does, Aa A General Rule, Accompany The Individual, Like Minority Or Incapacity, Wherever He May Go, So Long As His Domicil Remolds Un Changed ; And The Domicil Of The Slave Is That Of His Master. ...
Socage
Socage. (this Word, According To The Earlier Comm'on-lajw Writers, Originally Signi Fied A Service Rendered By A Tenant To His Lord, By The Soke Or Ploughshare; But Mr. Somner's Etymology, Referred To By Blackstone, Seems More Apposite, Who Derivea It From The Saxon Word Soc, Which Signifies Liberty Or Privilege, ...
Solicitor Of The Treasxtry
Solicitor Of The Treasxtry The Title Of One Of The Officers Of The Unitec States, Created By The Act Of May 20, 1830, 4 U. S. Stat. At Large, 414, Which Prescribes His Duties And His Rights. 2. His Powers And Duties Are--first, Those Which Were By Law Vested And ...
Somnambulism
Somnambulism (lat. Somnium, Sleep, Ambulo, To Walk). In Medical Juris Prudence. Sleep-walking. 2. The Mental Condition In This Affection Is Not Very Unlike That Of Dreaming. Many Of Their Pheno Mena Are The Sante; And The Fortner Differs From The Latter Chiefly In The Larger Number Of The Functions Iovolved ...
Sources Of The Law
Sources Of The Law. The Au Thority From Which The Laws Derive Their Force. A Term Used To Include All The Relia Ble Testimonials Of What Constitutes The Law. 2. The Power Of Making All Laws Is In The People Or Their Representatives, And None Can Have Any Force Whatever ...
Specific Perforiviance
Specific Perforiviance. The Actual Accomplishment Of A Contract By The Party Bound To Fulfil It. 2. Many Contracts Are Entered Into By Parties To Fulfil Certain Things, And Then The Contracting Parties Neglect Or Refuse To Fulfil Their Engagements. In Such Cases The Party Grieved Bas Generally A Remedy At ...
Spring
Spring. A Fountain. 2. The Owner Of The Soil Has The Exclusive Right To Use A Spring Arising On His Mounds. When Another Has An Easement Or Right To Draw Water From Such A Spring, Acquired By Grant Or Prescription, If The Spring Fails The Easement Ceases, But If It ...
State
State (lat. Stare, To Place, Establish) In Governmental Law. A Body Of Persons United Together In One Coin Munity For The Defence Of Their Rights And To Do Right And Justice To Foreigners. Ln This Sense, The State Means The Whole People United Into One Body Politic ; And The ...
Statitte
Statitte. A Law Established By The Act Of The Legislative Power. An Act Of The Legis Lature. The Written Will Of The Legislature, Solemnly Expressed According To The Forms Necessary To Constitute It The Law Of The State. This Word Ia Used To Designate The Written Law In Contradistinction To ...
Statute Of Frauds
Frauds, Statute Of. The Name Commonly Given To The Statute 29 Car. Ii. C. 3, Entitled "an Act For The Prevention Of Frauds And Perjuries." 2. The Multifarious Provisions Of This Cele Brated Statute Appear To Be Distributed Under The Following Heads. 1. The Creation And Transfer Of Estates In ...
Statute Of Frauds_2
Frauds, Statute Of. This Writing May Be A Letter. See Letter •, 4 Bingh. 653; 3 Ketc. Mass. 207 ; 16 Me..458. An Express Consent To A Sale May Be Given Verbally, When It Is Not Required By .the Sta Tute Of Frauds To Be In Writing. '` When A ...
Statutum De Judaismo
De Judaismo, Statutum. The Name Of A Statute Passed In The Reign Of Edward I., Which Enacted Severe And Absurd Penalties Against The Jews. Barrington, Stat. 197. The Jews Were Exceedingly Oppressed During The Middle Ages Throughout Christendom, And Aro So Still In Some Countries. In France, A Jew Was ...
Stock
Stock. In Mercantile Law. The Capital Of A Merchant, Tradesman, Or Other Person, Including His Merchandise, Money, And Credits. The Goods And Wares He Has For Sale And Traffic. The Capital Of Corpora Acme: This Latter Is Usually Divided Into Equal Shares Of A Determined Value. The Indebt Edness Of ...
Stoppage In Transitii
Stoppage In Transitii. A Re Sumption By The Seller Of The Posseesion Of Goods Not Paid For, While On Their Way To The Vendee And Before He Has Acquired Actual Possession Of Them. 15 Me. 314. For Most Purposes, The Possession Of The Carrier Is Considered To Be That Of ...
Street
Street. A Public Thoroughfare Or Highway In A City Or Village. 4 Serg. & R. Penn. 106 ; 11 Barb. N. Y. 399. See Hum Way.. 2. A Street, Besides Its Use As A Highway For Travel, May Be Used For The Accommoda Tion Of Drains, Sewers, Aqueducts, Vvater- And ...
Struction
Struction. The Term Grant Was Anciently And In Atrietnesa Of Usage Applied To Denote The Conveyance Of Incorporeal Rights, Though In The Largest Sense The Term Com Prehends Every Thing That Is Granted Or Passed From One To Another, And Is Applied To Every Species Of Property. Grant Is One ...
Stuprum
Stuprum (lat.). In Roman Law. The Criminal Sexual Intercourse Which Took Place Between A Man And A Single Woman, Maid, Or Widow, Who Before Lived Honestly. Inst. 4. 18. 4; Dig. 48. 5. 6 ; 50. 16. 101; 1 Bouvier, Inst. Theolo. Ps. 3, Qurest. 2, Art. 2, P. 252. ...
Submission
Submission (lat. Submissio,— Sub, Under, Mitten, To Put,--a Putting Under. Used Of Persons Or Things. A Putting One's Person Or Property Under The Control Of Another). A Yielding To Authority. A Citizen Is Bound To Submit To The Laws, A Child To His Parents, A Guardian To His Ward. A ...
Subrogation
Subrogation. The Substitution Of Another Person In The Place Of The Creditor, To Whose Rights He Succeeds In Relation To The Debt. That Change Which Puts Another Per Son In The Place Of The Creditor, And Which Makes The Right, The Mortgage, Or The Se Curity Which The Creditor Has ...
Suicide
Suicide (lat. Anus, Oneself, Cceclere, To Kill). In Medical Jurisprudence. Self Destruction. This Was Once Regarded By The Common Law As Exclusively A Felonious Act: Of Late, However, It Has Been Often Treated As The Result Of Insanity, To He Followed By All The Legal Consequences Of That Dis Ease, ...
Sunday
Sunday. The First Day Of The Week. 2. In Some Of The New England States It Begins At Sunsetting On Saturday And Ends At The Same Time The Next Day. But In Other Parts Of The United States It Generally Com Mences At Twelve O'clock On The Night Be Tween ...
Supplemental Bill
Supplemental Bill. In Equity Practice. A Bill Brought As An Addition To Rd Original Bill To Supply Some Defect In Its Original Frame Or Structure Which Cannot Be Supplied By Amendment. See 1 Paige, Ch. N. Y. 200 ; 15 Miss. 456 ; 22 Barb. N. Y. 161; 14 Ala. ...
Surable Interest Insurancepolicy
Surable Interest ; Insurance ; Policy ; Warranty. 2. Under A Marine Insurance The Risks Are Frona A Certain Place To A Certain Other, Or From One Date To Another. The Perils Usually Insured Against As " Perils Of The Seas" Are —fire, Lightning, Winds, Waves, Rocks, Shoals, And Collisions, ...
Suretyship
Suretyship. An Undertsking To An Swer For The Debt, Default, Or Miscarriage Of Another, By Which The Surety Becoines Bound As The Principal Or Original Debtor Is Bound. It Differs From Guaranty In This, That Suretyship Is A Primary Obligation To See That The Debt Is Paid,• While Guaranty Is ...
Surplusage
Surplusage. In Accounts. A Greater Disbursement Than The Charges Amount To. A Balance Over. 1 Lew. 219. In Pleading. Allegations Of Matter Wholly Foreign And Impertinent To The Cause. All Matter Beyond The Circumstances Necessary To Constitute The Action Is Surplusage. Cowp. 683: 5 East, 275 ; 10 Id. 205 ...
Tacking
Tacking. In English Law. The Union Of Securities Given At Different Times, So As To Prevent Any Intermediate Purchaser's Claiming Title To Redeem Or Otherwise Die. Charge One Lien Which Is Prior, Without Re Deeming Or Disch'arging Other Liens Also Which Are Subsequent, To His Own Title. Jeremy, Eq. Jur. ...
Tax Sale
Tax Sale. A Sale Of Lands For The Non-payment Of Taxes Assessed Thereon. 2. The Power Of Sale Does Not Attach Until Every Prerequisite Of The Law Has Been Com Plied With. 9 Miss. 627. The Regularity Of The Anterior Proceedings Is The Basis Upon Which It Rests. Those Proceedings ...
Tender
Tender (lat. Tendere, To Extend, To Offer). An Offer To Deliver Something, Made In Pursuance Of Some Contract Or Obligation, Under Such Circumstances As To Require No Further Act From The Party Making It To Com Plete The Transfer. Legal Tender, Money Of A Character Which By Law A Debtor ...
Tennessee
Tennessee. The Name Of One Of The United States Of America. 2b It Was Originally A Part Of North Carolina. In April, 1784, The Legielature Of North Carolina Passed An Act Ceding To The United States, Upon Oertain Conditions, All Her Territory West Of The Appalachian Or Allegheny Mountains. Before ...
Tenure
Tenure (from Lat. Tenere, To Hold). The Mode By Which A Man Holds An Estate In Lands. Such A Holding As Is Coupled With Some Service, Which The Holder Is Bound To Perform ,so Long As He Continues To Hold. 2. The Thing Held Is Called A Tenement ; The ...
Territory
Territory. A Part Of A Country Separated From The Rest And Subject To A Par Ticular Jurisdiction. The Word Is Derived From Terren, And Is Said To Be So Called Because The Magistrate Within His Juris Diction Has The Power Of Inspiring A Salutary Fear. Diction Eet Ab Eo Quod ...
Testaivient
Testaivient. In Civil Law. The Appointment Of An Executor Or Testamentary Heir, According To The Formalities Prescribed By Law. Domat, Liv. I, Tit. 1, S. 1. At First There Were Only Two Sorts Of Testaments Among The Romans,—that Called Ealatio Comitiis, And Another Called In Proeinetu. (see Below.) In The ...
Texas
Texas. The Name Of One Of The New States Of The American Union. 2. 'under The Name Of Coahuila And Texas, It Was A Province Of Mexico Until 1836, When The Inhabit, Ants Established A Separate Repnlilie. On The First Day Of Maroh, 1845, The Congress Of The United States, ...
Tide
Tide. The Ebb And Flow Of The Sea. The Law Takes Notice Of Three Kinds Of Tides, Viz.: The High Spring Tides, Which Are The Fluxes Of The Sea At Those Tides Which Happen At The Two Equinoctials; The Spring Tides, Which Happen Tvvice Every Month, At The Full And ...
Tide Water 2
Tide-water. 2. At Common Law, The Sea-shore, In Eng Land, Belongs To The Crown; In This Country, To The State. Angell, Tide-wat 20 Et Seq.; 3 Kent, Comm. 347 ; 27 Eng. L. & Eq. 242 ; 6 Mass. 435 ; 1 Dutch'. N. J. 525 ; 16 Pet. 367 ...
Tide Water 2_2
Tide-water. 2. At Common Law, The Sea-shore, In Eng Land, Belongs T,o The Crown; In This Country, To The State. Angell, Tide-wat. 20 Et Seq.; 3 Kent, Comm. 347 ; 27 Eng. L. & Eq. 242 ; 6 Mass. 435 ; 1 Dutch. N. J. 525 ; 16 Pet. 367; ...
Tim
Tim •, Pignus ; Ortolan Inst. I& 1208 Et Seq. ; Mackeldey, Rum. Rec'ht, 396-408. I3e -sides The Above-named Contractus Reales, Large Class Of Contracts Which Had No Special N Am Es, And Were Thence Called Contractus Inno Minati, Were Incladcd Under This Head, From The Fact That They, Like ...
Tio N
Tio N. In International Lavr. The Right Of Pre-emption Is The Right Of A Nation To Detain The Merchandise Of Strangers Passing Through Her Territories Or Seas, In Order To Afford To Her Subjects The Preference Of Purchase. 1 Chitty, Coin. Law, 103; 2 Sharswood, Blackst. Comm. 287. This Right ...
Tion
Tion. When A Contract By Specialty Is Changed By A Paral Agreement, The Whole Contract Becomes Parol. 2 Watts, Penn. 451; 9 Pick. Mass. 298; 13 Wend. N. Y. 71. Unilateral Contracts Are Those In Which The Party To Whom The Engagement Is Made Makes No Express Agreement On His ...
Tithingman
Tithingman. In Saxon Law. The Head Or Chief Of A Decennary Of Ten Families: He Was To Decide All Lesser Causes Between Neighbors. Now Tithingmen And Constables Are The Same Thing. Jacob, Law Diet. In New England, A Parish Officer To Keep Good Order In Church. Webster, Dict. Title. Eatates. ...
Tonnage
Tonnage. The Capacity Of A Ship Or V Essel. 2. This Term Is Most Usually Applied To The Capa City Of A Vessel In Tons As Determined By The Legal Mode Of Measurement ; And, As A General Rule, In The United States The Official Tonnage Of A Vessel Is ...
Tor Lien
Tor ; Lien. In Practice. The Act Of A Client By Which, He.engages An Attorney Or Counsellor To Man Age A Cause, Either By Prosecuting It, When He Is Plaintiff, Or Defending It, When He Is Defendant. The Retaining Fee. In English Practice A Much More Formal Retainer Is Usually ...
Torts
Torts. Damages For The Commission Of A Tortious Act Are To Be Measured By The Law Of The Place Where The Act Is Done. 1 P. Will. 395 ; 1 Pet. C. C. 225 ; Story, Confl. Laws, 0 307. Marriage, If Valid Where Contracted, Is Valid Everywhere, Unless Where ...
Torture
Torture. The Rack, Or Question, Or Other Mode Of Examination By Violence To The Person, To Extort A Confession From Supposed Criminals, And A Revelation Of Their Asso Ciates. 2. It Is To Be Distinguished From Punishment, Which Usually Succeeds A Conviction For Offencec, As It Was Inflictod In Li»tine, ...
Total Loss
Total Loss. In Insurance. A Total Loss In Marine Insurance Is Either The Absolute Destruction Of The Insured Subject By The Direct Action Of The Perils Insured Against, Or A Con Etructive—sometimes Called Technical—total Loss, In Vvhich The Assured Is Deprived Of The Pos. Session Of The Subj Ect, Still ...
Trade
Trade. Any Sort Of Dealings By Way Of Sale Or Exchange. The Dealings In A Par Ticular Business : As, The Indian Trade ; The Business Of A Particular Mechanic : Hence Boys Are Said To Be Pat Apprentices To Learn A Trade: As The Trade Of A Carpenter, Shoe ...
The Chickasaw Nation
Chickasaw Nation, The. With.... In Certain Limits Established By Beaty Be Tween The United States; The Choctaw And Toe Chiekasaw Indians, Signed At Washing, Ton, June 22, The Chickasaw Nation Has' Exclusive Control And Jurisdiction. The Following Treaties Have Been Made, Establish Ing The Rights .of This Nation :—betwocii The ...
The Choctaw Nation
Choctaw Nation, The. By Treaty With The United States, A Portion Of Ter Ritory Is Set Apart, Over Which The Choctaw Indians Have Exclusive Jurisdiction. They Have A Printed Constitution, Prefaced By A Bill Of Rights. The Bill Of Rights Declares, Among Other Things, That Political Power Is Inherent In ...