Europe, too closely pent up at home, finding land of which the savages stood in no particular need, and of which they made no actual and constant use, were lawfully entitled to take possession of it, and settle it with colonies. Theologiae moralis: Tractatus I-VIII - Page 235by Francis Patrick Kenrick - 1841Full view - About this book
| 1830 - 414 pages
...their habitations through these immense regions, cannot be a true and legal possession, and that ' the people of Europe, too closely pent up, finding...lawfully possess it, and establish colonies there.' The earth, he proceeds to say, was made to supply subsistence for the human race in general, and would... | |
| 1830 - 430 pages
...dieir habitations through these immense regions, cannot be a true and legal possession, and that ' die people of Europe, too closely pent up, finding land...lawfully possess it, and establish colonies there.' The earth, he proceeds to say, was made to supply subsistence for the human race in general, and would... | |
| Cherokee Nation, Richard Peters - 1831 - 332 pages
...themselves more lands than they have occasion for, and which they are now unable to settle and cultivate. Their removing their habitations through these immense...particular want, and of which they make no actual or constant use, may lawfully possess it, and establish colonies there. We have already said, that... | |
| Alabama. Supreme Court, George Noble Stewart, Benjamin Faneuil Porter - 1836 - 508 pages
...themselves more land than they have occasion for, and which they are unable to -settle and cultivate. Their removing their habitations through these immense...lawfully possess it, and establish colonies there. We have already said that the earth belongs to the human race in general, and was designed to furnish... | |
| 1844 - 778 pages
...able to settle and cultivate. Their unsettled habitation in those immense regions cannot be accounted a true and legal possession ; and the people of Europe, too closely pent up at home, finding land of which the savages stood in no particular need, and of which they made no actual... | |
| Emer de Vattel - 1852 - 666 pages
...settle and culti- cnAP' *Y vate. Their unsettled habitation in those immense regions cannot be accounted a true and legal possession ; and the people of Europe, too closely pent up at home, finding land of which the savages stood in no particular need, and of which they made no actual... | |
| Emer de Vattel, Edward Duncan Ingraham - 1852 - 670 pages
...and culti- C2^JEIIIL vate. Their unsettled habitation in those immense regions connot be accounted a true and legal possession ; and the people of Europe, too closely pent up at home, finding land of which the savages stood in no particular need, and of which they made no actual... | |
| George Bowyer - 1854 - 424 pages
...able to settle and cultivate. Their unsettled habitation in those immense regions cannot be accounted a true and legal possession; and the people of Europe, too closely pent up at home, finding land of which the savages stood in no particular need, and of which they made no actual... | |
| United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - 1859 - 794 pages
...themselves more land than they have occasion for, and which they are unable to settle and cultivate. Their removing their habitations through these immense...lawfully possess it, and establish colonies there. We have already said that the earth belongs to the human race in general, and was designed to furnish... | |
| 1900 - 634 pages
...that the unsettled habitations of the Indians in the immense regions of America "can not be accounted a true and legal possession ; and the people of Europe, too closely pent up at home, finding land of which the savages stood in no particular need, and of which they made no actual... | |
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