Tyack v. Mobley

How courts have described this case

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• holding that federal statute barring inheritance of highly-fractioned Indian-land allotments and providing for escheat to tribe constituted taking of decedent’s property without just compensation
• finding that Native Americans did not have reasonable investment-backed expectations in devise and descent of property
• finding that Native Americans did not have reasonable investment-backed expectations in devise and descent of property
• stating that “the right to pass on property — to one’s family in particular” constitutes a protected property right under the Fifth Amendment
• noting that \the right to pass on\ property \is itself a valuable right\
• noting that “the right to pass on” property “is itself a valuable right”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).