Titus v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court for the Southern District of Georgia. The case was thus: On the 2d December, 1862, the executors of the will of C. J. McDonald, being fully authorized, sold and conveyed to the Confederate government certaindand in.Bibb County, Georgia, to be used (through the agency of certain laboratories built upon it for the preparation of ammunition) in promoting the rebellion against the government of the United States.
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Error to the Circuit Court for the Southern District of Georgia. The case was thus: On the 2d December, 1862, the executors of the will of C. J. McDonald, being fully authorized, sold and conveyed to the Confederate government certaindand in.Bibb County, Georgia, to be used (through the agency of certain laboratories built upon it for the preparation of ammunition) in promoting the rebellion against the government of the United States. This land remained -the property of the Confederate government, and was used in aid of the rebellion, until the final surrender of the Confederate armies, when…
1Opinion of the Court
The CHIEF JUSTICE
delivered the opinion of the court.
In Avar-the public property,of an enemy captured on land becomes, for' the time being at least, the property of the conqueror. No judicial proceeding is necessary to pass the title. Usually the ultimate ownership 'of real property is settled by the treaty of peace, but so long as it is held and not surrendered by a -treaty or otherwise it remains the property of the conqueror.
This well settled principle -in the law of war 'was recog nized by this court in United States v. Huchabee, * as applicable to the late civil war. At the close of that…
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