The Legitimate Government in Hawaii Series: Allodial Lands - Important Case Precedence

 

Case Precedence 1:  Kekiekie vs. Dennis , Volume 1, HAWAIIAN REPORTS, Supreme Court Law Library/Archives/Main Library or on the web at Punawaiola:

Reference:  http://punawaiola.org/es6/index.html?path=/Collections/HCases/Hawaiian%20Reports%20Vol%201%20(1846-1856).pdf

  

Kekiekie

was

one

of

those

tenants,

who

had

duly

entered

his

claim

at

the

Land

Com

mission

previous

to

the

date

of

the

defendant’s

patent,

and

subsequently,

in

1850,

received

his

award

and

patent—that

consequently

the

plaintifl"s

title

was

good

against

all

the

world.

Moreover,

said

the

Court,

even

if

the

King

had

not

made

this

reservation,

the

plaintifl"s

title

would

be

good;

for

-

the

people’s

lands

were

secured

to

them

by

the

Constitution

and

laws

of

the

Kingdom,

and

no

power

can

convey

them

away,

not

even

that

of

royalty

itself."