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Halaman 10 - Those who shall prefer to remain in the said territories, may either retain the title and rights of Mexican citizens, or acquire those of citizens of the United States. But they shall be under the obligation to make their election within one year from the date of the exchange of ratifications of this treaty ; and those who shall remain in the said territories after the expiration of that year, without having declared their intention to retain the character of Mexicans, shall be considered to have...
Halaman 10 - Mexicans now established in territories previously belonging to Mexico, and which remain for the future within the limits of the United States, as defined by the present Treaty, shall be free to continue where they now reside, or to remove at any time to the Mexican Republic, retaining the property which they possess in the said territories, or disposing thereof and removing the proceeds wherever they please; without their being subjected, on this account., to any contribution, tax or charge whatever....
Halaman 12 - to ascertain and settle the private land claims in the State of California." directs, " that each and every person claiming lands in California, by virtue of any right or title derived from the Spanish or Mexican government...
Halaman 6 - Tenant in fee-simple (or, as he is frequently styled, tenant in fee) is he that hath lands, tenements, or hereditaments, to hold to him and his heirs forever: (e) generally, absolutely, and simply; without mentioning what heirs, but referring that to his own pleasure, or to the disposition of the law.
Halaman 12 - Commissioners when sitting as a board, together with such documentary evidence and testimony of witnesses as the said claimant relies upon in support of such claims ; and it shall be the duty of the Commissioners, when the case is ready for hearing, to proceed promptly to examine the same upon such evidence, and upon the evidence produced in behalf of the United States, and to decide upon the validity of the said...
Halaman 10 - In the said territories, property of every kind, now belonging to Mexicans not established there, shall be inviolably respected. The present owners, the heirs of these, and all Mexicans who may hereafter acquire said property by contract, shall enjoy with respect to it guarantees equally ample as if the same belonged to citizens of the United States.
Halaman 25 - a legal presumption that public and responsible officers, claiming " and exercising the right of disposing of the public domain, did it by " the order and consent of the Government, in whose name the acts
Halaman 25 - We have frequently decided that the public acts of public officers, purporting to be exercised in an official capacity, and by public authority, shall not be presumed to be usurped, but that a legitimate authority had been previously given or subsequently ratified.
Halaman 16 - All separate interests of individuals ID property are held of the government," and " notwithstanding the grant to individuals, the eminent domain, the highest and most exact idea of property, remains in the government, or in the aggregate body of the people in their sovereign capacity, and they have a right to resume the possession of the property in the manner directed hy the constitution and laws of the state, whenever the public interest requires it.
Halaman 6 - The king, therefore, only hath absolutum et directum, dominium : but all subjects' lands are in the nature of feodum or fee : whether derived to them by descent from their ancestors, or purchased for a valuable consideration; for they cannot come to any man by either of those ways, unless accompanied with those feodal clogs which were laid upon the first feudatory when it was originally granted.

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