Title
TITLE 60 - PROPERTY
Body
Code of Federal Regulations
Rights-of-way over Indian lands, see 25 C.F.R. § 169.1 et seq.
United States Code
Allotment of Indian lands, see 25 U.S.C. § 331 et. seq.
Bureau of Indian Affairs, employee or employees to sign approval of tribal deeds, see 25 U.S.C. § 11.
Descent and distribution of land to heirs of allottees, see 25 U.S.C. § 371 et seq.
Designation of tribes, conveyance of submarginal land, see 25 U.S.C. § 459a.
Indian land claims settlements; Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw, see 25 U.S.C. § 1779 et seq.
Indian land consolidation, see 25 U.S.C. § 2203.
Irrigation of allotted lands, see 25 U.S.C. § 381 et seq.
Lease, sale, or surrender of allotted or unallotted lands, see 25 U.S.C. § 391 et seq.
Submarginal lands of United States held in trust for specified Indian tribes, see 25 U.S.C. § 459.
CHAPTER 1
GENERAL PROVISIONS
§ 1. Prior right of possession
Any person having peaceable possession of private property obtained through lawful means, and claiming a limited or absolute right in the same, shall be held, in law, to have a prior right of possession thereto against all persons obtaining possession thereafter, until the right of such person shall expire, or be by him transferred to another for good or valuable consideration, or until his right shall be disputed and invalidated by due course of law. And any person, having a prior right of possession of any property to any other person, and the property being detained by the latter from the former without his voluntary consent, may recover such property upon suit for possession merely, without regard to, or investigation had by the court of, other or higher title, either in plaintiff or defendant of such suit. But such person as plaintiff may submit to the court the general question of right, involving the right of possession of the property, or be awarded possession of such property merely, as provided above, with the right accruing of answering as defen...
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