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Title 25 - Indians
Chapter 5 - PROTECTION OF INDIANS (§§ 171 - 202)
Section 194 - Trial of right of property; burden of proof
PROTECTION OF INDIANS - 25 U.S.C. § 194 (2012)
§194. Trial of right of property; burden of proof
In all trials about the right of property in which an Indian may be a party on one side, and a white person on the other, the burden of proof shall rest upon the white person, whenever the Indian shall make out a presumption of title in himself from the fact of previous possession or ownership.
(R.S. §2126.)
CodificationR.S. §2126 derived from act June 30, 1834, ch. 161, §22, 4 Stat. 733.
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