§ 194. — Trial of right of property; burden of proof.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[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.
