Property

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Where is the forest jar now? Everyone okay?

May our empathy guide humanity once more, however schmaltzy the outcome.

The conventional explanation in US Law for real property is that “first discovery” was the first owner. That is, while American Indians had the “right of occupancy”, actual ownership went to whomever the European law would recognize first. Some characterized this a “God-given” or but not these rights were Pope determined. I’ve never actually heard anyone call US property rights as acquired peacefully. “[O]ur whole country been granted by the crown while in then occupation of the Indians.” Johnson v. M’Intosh, 21 U.S. 543, 579 (1823). “Conquest gives a title which the Courts of the conqueror cannot deny[.]” So … violence is always how we got private real property in the U.S., unless you’re American Indian, in which case violence is still frequently how native ancestors ended up where they are.