State v. Manchaca
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Bexar County. Ou the 16th day of October, 1815, the appellee obtained from the board of land commissioners of Bexar county a headrjght certificate of the second class for 1,280 acres of land;* but conceiving that he was entitled under the constitution and laws of the country to a league and labor, he subsequently brought suit under the 12th section of the act supplementary to “An act to detect fraudulent land certificates, etc.; approved, February 4, 1841,” in…
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Appeal from Bexar County. Ou the 16th day of October, 1815, the appellee obtained from the board of land commissioners of Bexar county a headrjght certificate of the second class for 1,280 acres of land;* but conceiving that he was entitled under the constitution and laws of the country to a league and labor, he subsequently brought suit under the 12th section of the act supplementary to “An act to detect fraudulent land certificates, etc.; approved, February 4, 1841,” in order to establish his right to the same, offeriug at the same time, to surrender for cancellation the certificate he had…
1Opinion of the CourtHemphill, C. J.
This application for a headright certificate of the first class — viz., for a league and labor of land, is made under the 12th section of “ an act to detect fraudulent land certificates and to provide for issuing patents to legal claimants,” approved February 4, 1841, p. 172, Laws of the Fifth Congress.
This section is expressed in the following terms, viz.: “That any person who conceives himself entitled to laud, but has obtained a certificate from a board for too much land, he may deliver the same to the district judge of the county where the certificate was issued, who shall destroy the…
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