Landes v. Perkins’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 29 state decisions

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1. ““It is a matter of history, of which this court will take judicial notice, that at the time of thd cession of Louisiana to the United States, in that portion of the territory of which this state is composed, nineteen-twentieths of the titles to lands were like that involved in this case, prior to its confirmation. There were very few complete grants. Most of the inhabitants were too poor to defray the expenses attending the completion of their titles, but they had faith in their government, and rested as quietly under their inchoate titles as though they had been perfect. Stoddard’s Sketches, 245. As early as October, 1804, we find the legislature speaking of freeholders, and authorizing executions 'against lands and tenements. See law establishing courts for the trial of small causes, passed October, 1804, (section 10.) There being so few complete titles, the legislature, in subjecting lands and tenements generally to execution, must have contemplated a seizure and sale of those incomplete titles which existed under the Spanish government. At the date of the act above referred to, no titles had been confirmed by the United States. An instance is not recollected in which a question has been made as to the liability of such titles as Glamorgan’s under the Spanish government to sale under execution. It is believed that such titles have been made the subject of judicial sales, without question, ever since the change of government.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Kingman v. Holthaus