Alviso v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from a decree of the District Court of California, approving a survey of a confirmed Mexicali land claim. There were two grants issued by the Mexican government to the claimant.
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This was an appeal from a decree of the District Court of California, approving a survey of a confirmed Mexicali land claim. There were two grants issued by the Mexican government to the claimant. The original grant, issued in September, 1835, described the land ceded as known by the name of Milpitas, and as being one league in length, from north to south, and one-half a league in width, from east to west, and being in extent equal to half a square league, as shown by the accompanying map. The second grant, issued in October following, added a half league to the*oi’igiual quantity on the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
In the case of Higueras v. United States, * this court speaks of concessions or grants of public lands, made by Mexican governors, as being of three kinds: 1st, Grants by specific boundaries, where the donee was entitled' to the entire tract; 2d. Grants by quantity, as of one or mpre leagues of land situated in a larger tract, described by out-boundaries, where the donee was entitled only to the quantity specified; and 3d. Grants of a certain place or rancho by some particular name, either with or without specific boundaries, where the donee was entitled to the tract, according to the…
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