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Chief Justice Marshall and the English Oak: A Comment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2025

John Hookey
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Federal Law Review , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , March 1974 , pp. 174 - 177
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Copyright © 1974 The Australian National University

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1 Dr Hookey is replying to Mr Priestley's article on communal native title, supra p. 150.

2 Milirrpum v. Nabalco Pty Ltd (1971) 17 F.L.R. 141, 207-208. And cf. Green v. Biddle (1823) 8 Wheaton 1, 74 where it was held that the common law of England was the law of Virginia.

3 (1823) 8 Wheaton 543.

I have adopted the spelling of the defendant's name favoured in Brightly's 1883 edition of Wheaton's Reports.

4 Milirrpum v. Nabalco Pty Ltd (1971) 17 F.L.R. 141, 262.

5 (1823) 8 Wheaton 543, 559, 586, 594.

6 (1823) 8 Wheaton 543, 559-560.

7 Id. 581.

8 Id. 573-574, 583-585, 587, 592.

9 Id. 580-581, 585-586, 588.

10 Id. 576-577, 591.

11 Id. 585.

12 Id. 593-594.

13 Id. 594.

14 Pierce Bell Sales Pty Ltd v. Frazer (1973) 47 A.L.J.R. 270 shows that not even all freeholds are subject to the right of unrestricted alienation.

15 Marshall v. Clark (1793) 1 Kentucky Reports 77, 80; Johnson v. Mclntosh (1823) 8 Wheaton 543, 583-588, 592; Worcester v. State of Georgia (1832) 6 Pet. 515, 544-546; Buttz v. Northern Pacific Railroad (1886) 119. U.S. 55, 66; United States v. Shoshone Tribe (1937) 304 U.S. 111, 116.

16 (1657-1658) 9 Interregnum, Act 51; (1661-1662) 14 Car. 2, Act 138; (1705) 4 Anne c. 52; (1752) 25 Geo. 2 c. 36; [1779] c. 25; [1786] c. 25; [1791] c. 47; [1792] cs. 51 & 52.

17 (1661-1662) 14 Car. 2, Act 138; [1779] c. 13.

18 (1646) 21 Car. 1, Act 1; (1722) 8 Geo. 1 c. 3.

19 (1660) 12 Car. 2, unnumbered, Hening i, 36; (1756) 29 Geo. 2, c. 8; (1759) 32 Geo. 2, c. 19.

20 Hening ii, 14. This statute was passed before the development of the doctrine of pre-emption was complete.