§ 194. Trial of right of property; burden of proof

Statutory text

In all trials about the right of property in which an Indian may be a party on one side, and a white person on the other, the burden of proof shall rest upon the white person, whenever the Indian shall make out a presumption of title in himself from the fact of previous possession or ownership.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

undated
(R.S. § 2126.)
Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 194
(R.S. § 2126.)
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
(R.S. § 2126.)

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Editorial Notes

Codification

R.S. § 2126 derived from act June 30, 1834, ch. 161, § 22, 4 Stat. 733.

Credits

(R.S. § 2126.)