United States v. Leblanc
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the District Court of the United States .for the Eastern District of Louisiana, being a land case arising under the acts of 1824 and 1844. The claimants presented in the District Court a paper, of which the following is a translation : “ Don Bernardo de Galvez, Colonel, &e.
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This was an appeal from the District Court of the United States .for the Eastern District of Louisiana, being a land case arising under the acts of 1824 and 1844. The claimants presented in the District Court a paper, of which the following is a translation : “ Don Bernardo de Galvez, Colonel, &e. Having seen the foregoing proceedings, performed by the commandant of Attacapas, Don Alexander Declobet, respecting the possession which he had given to Peter LeBlanc, of ten arpens of front on the great prairie, with the depth of forty-two, bounded on one side by the lands of Louis Roque; and on…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Taney
This claim appears to be a groundless one. The paper produced is á copy, certified by the Register of the Land-Office at New Orleans, to have been taken from one of the records of his office entitled “ Libro 1 of French and Spanish Concessions.” The paper as certified is nothing more than the preamble usually inserted in Spanish grants where a perfect and absolute title is intended to be given as contradistinguished from the order of survey or first concession. And at the end of this preamble is an &c., without any words of concession or grant, and this &c. is followed by the date, New…
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