The question in this case is, whether the land claimed was private property when we acquired California by treaty, or whether it then was part of the public domain of Mexico, and now belongs to the public lands of the United States.
1. If it was private property, it must have become so by the grant of a vested interest, that was good in equity; made by the granting...
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