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M`ILVAINE v. COXE'S LESSEE

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8 U.S. 209 (1808)

4 Cranch 209

2 L.Ed. 598

M`ILVAINE, v. COXE'S LESSEE.

Supreme Court of United States.

February 3-5, 1808.

February 23, 1808.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the plaintiff in error, it was contended

On the part of the defendant in error, it was contended.

CUSHING, J. delivered the opinion of the court, as follows.†

The court deems it unnecessary to declare an opinion upon a point which was much debated in this cause, whether a real British subject born before the 4th of July, 1776; who never from the time of his birth, resided within any of the American colonies or states, can, upon the principles of the common law, take lands by descent in...

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