Mott v. Villa De Reyes

Citations

• 45 Cal. 379

Syllabus

<p>Printing .Copy of Document in Brief.—If the attorney for one of the parties appends to his brief what he calls a certified copy of a document which is not in the record, the party which he represents cannot complain if the Court treat it as properly before it.</p> <p>License by Mexican Authorities to Occupy Land.—A license to occupy land temporarily, called a provisional grant, granted by the Governor of California before the acquisition of California by the United States, conveyed no title, legal or equitable, to the land, and was revocable at pleasure.</p> <p>Idem.—It was the practice of the Mexican Government to consider a long possession held under such provisional grant or license, as entitling the occupant to some sort of priority of right to purchase when the land came finally to be disposed of; but this priority did not rest on any legal obligation which the Government was under to such occupant.</p> <p>Bight of Mexican Government to Annul a Grant of Land.—The question reserved, as to whether the Governor of California, when it was a part of Mexico, had the power, after a grant of land had been made to a party in due form of law, afterwards to annul and vacate it, on the ground that it was fraudulently obtained, and grant the land to another.</p> <p>Bight of Mexican Grantee to Possession until Survey.—A party whose Mexican grant to a specific quantity of land within the exterior boundaries of a larger tract,, has been confirmed by the United States Di'strict Court, has a right to the possession of all the land within the exterior boundaries of the larger tract, until the Government of the United States shall segregate the part confirmed, by a final and approved survey.</p> <p>Harmless Errors will not Reverse Judgment.—A judgment will not be reversed on account of rulings of the Court below which are not correct, if those rulings have worked no injury to the losing party, and could not have changed the result.</p> <p>Acts of Officers of Foreign Governments