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McIntosh, [a] 21 U.S. (8 Wheat.) 543 (1823), also written M‘Intosh, is a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that held that private citizens could not purchase lands from Native Americans. As the facts were recited by Chief Justice John Marshall , the successor in interest to a private purchase from the Piankeshaw attempted to ...
In 1874, the U.S. government created the United States Reports, and retroactively numbered older privately-published case reports as part of the new series. As a result, cases appearing in volumes 1–90 of U.S. Reports have dual citation forms; one for the volume number of U.S. Reports, and one for the volume number of the reports named for the relevant reporter of decisions (these are called ...
Sims' Lessee v. Irvine (1799) was the first Supreme Court decision to discuss aboriginal title (albeit briefly), and the only such decision before the Marshall Court. The Court found ejectment jurisdiction over certain lands, notwithstanding the defendant's claim (in the alternative to the claim that the defendant himself held title) that the lands were still held in aboriginal title because:
John Bellew may refer to: John Chippendall Montesquieu Bellew (1823–1874), English author, preacher, and public reader John Bellew, 1st Baron Bellew of Duleek (died 1692), Irish Jacobite soldier and politician
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In 1831, he was elected to the House of Commons for County Louth, a seat he held until 1832. He was reelected for the constituency in 1834, representing it for the next three years. Bellew served as high sheriff of County Louth in 1831 and was then appointed lord lieutenant of Louth until his death in 1866. He was also commissioner of national ...
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He was born at Lancaster on 3 August 1823, the only child of an infantry officer, Captain Robert Higgin, of the 12th Regiment, son of John Higgin of Lancester. [1] His mother, Anne Maria Bellew, who was a Roman Catholic, who towards the close of 1822 had married Captain Higgin; she was the daughter of John Bellew, of Castle Bellew, County Galway, and cousin of Lord Bellew.