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[CITE: 25USC194]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
                    CHAPTER 5--PROTECTION OF INDIANS
 
Sec. 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. Sec. 2126.)

                          Codification

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