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title: "25 U.S.C. § 194"
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# 25 U.S.C. § 194 - Trial of right of property; burden of proof

## Text

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.)

## Notes

Editorial Notes

Codification R.S. § 2126 derived from act June 30, 1834, ch. 161, § 22, 4 Stat. 733.