 April, 1803, and ratified on the 21st of October, in the same year, ceded it to the United States. Spain has with equal perseverance and earnestness maintained, that her cession to France comprehended that territory only which was at that time denominated...  Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society - Page 308by Mississippi Historical Society - 1904Full view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court, Richard Peters - Court rules - 1829 - 758 pages
...contended that her cession to France comprehended only that territory which at the time of the cession was denominated Louisiana, consisting of the island of New Orleans, and the country which had been originally ceded to her by France, west of the Mississippi. The land claimed by the... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - History - 1830 - 646 pages
...France, by the treaty of Paris, signed on the 30th of April, 1803, and ratifiVil on the 21st of Oc'ober, in the same year, ceded it to the United States. Spain...of the province of Louisiana, lying on both sides the Mississippi, and extending eastward beyond the bay of Mobile, '•'pain was at the same time in... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - History - 1835 - 624 pages
...and that France, by the treaty of Paris, signed on the 30th of April^ 1 80S, and ratified on the 2ltt of October, in the same year, ceded it to the United...confidence that at the commencement of the war of 1766, she was the undisputed possessor of the province of Louisiana, lying on both sides the Mississippi,... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - History - 1830 - 628 pages
...territory as part of Louisiana to France ; and that France, by the treaty of Paris, signed on the 30th of April, 1803, and ratified on the 21st of October,...of the province of Louisiana, lying on both sides the Mississippi, and extending eastward beyond the bay of Mobile. Spain was at the same time in possession... | |
 | Richard Peters - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 792 pages
...contended that her cession to France comprehended only that territory which at the time of the cession was denominated Louisiana, consisting of the island of New Orleans, and the country which had been originally ceded to her by France, west of the Mississippi. The land claimed by the... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore - Constitutional law - 1877 - 1054 pages
...that her cession to France comprehended only that territory which, at the time of the cession, was tion togather, to mayntayne and prsearue the liberty and purity of the gospell which had been originally ceded to her by France west of the Mississippi. Congress passed a joint resolution,... | |
 | Thomas Donaldson - Public lands - 1881 - 566 pages
...that her cession to Franco comprehended only that territory which, at the time of the cession, was denominated Louisiana, consisting of the island of New Orleans, and the country which had been originally ceded to her by France west of the Mississippi. The land claimed by the plaintiffs... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1882 - 1074 pages
...contended that her cession to France comprehended only thai territory whk'h at the time of the cession wag denominated Louisiana, consisting of the Island of New Orleans, and the country which hud been originally ceded to her by France, west of the Mississippi. The land claimed by the... | |
 | John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond - United States - 1888 - 774 pages
...Spain, with equal earnestness and persistence, maintained that her cession to France comprehended what was at that time denominated Louisiana, consisting of the island of New Orleans and the country west of the Mississippi. CJ Marshall, in Foster v. Neilson, 6 Peters, 306, said: " Every word in that... | |
 | Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry - Spain - 1889 - 240 pages
...Spain, with equal earnestness and persistence, maintained that her cession to France comprehended what was at that time denominated Louisiana, consisting of the island of New Orleans and the country west of the Mississippi. acquired by other powers; and that the United States could address themselves... | |
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