Court : US Supreme Court
Decided on : Jan-01-1822
Doddridge v. Thompson - 22 U.S. 469 (1822) U.S. Supreme Court Doddridge v. Thompson, 22 U.S. 9 Wheat. 469 469 (1822) Doddridge v. Thompson 22 U.S. (9 Wheat.) 469 ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF OHIO Syllabus Under the reserve contained in the cession act of Virginia and under the Acts of Congress of August 10, 1790, ch. 67, and of June 9, 1794, ch. 238, the whole country, lying between the Scioto and Little Miami Rivers, was subjected to the military warrants, to satisfy which the reserve was made. The territory lying between two rivers is the whole country from their sources to their mouths, and if no branch of either of them has acquired the name, exclusive of another, the main branch, torts source, roust be considered as the true river. The Act of June 26, 1812, ch. 432, to ascertain the western boundary of the tract reserved for the military warrants, and which provisionally designate Ludlow's Line as the western boundary, did not invalidate the title to land between that ...
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Stephens v. McCargo - 22 U.S. 502 (1822) U.S. Supreme Court Stephens v. McCargo, 22 U.S. 9 Wheat. 502 502 (1822) Stephens v. McCargo 22 U.S. (9 Wheat.) 502 APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY Syllabus The Land Law of Virginia of 1779 makes a preemption warrant superior to a Treasury warrant whenever they interfere with each other, unless the holder of the preemption warrant has forfeited that superiority by failing to enter his warrant with the surveyor of the county within twelve months after the end of the session at which the land law was enacted, and on that period's having expired, and being prolonged by successive acts, during which time there was one interval between the expiration of the law and the act of revival, the original right of the holder of the preemption warrant was preserved notwithstanding that interval, the entry of the holder of the Treasury warrant not having been made during the same interval. MR. CHIEF JUSTICE MARSHALL delivered...
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