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	Yazoo land fraud - Encyclopedia.com
		Yazoo land fraud name given to the sale in 1795 by an act of the Georgia legislature of vast holdings in the Yazoo River country to four land companies following the wholesale bribery of the legislators; the territory comprised most of present Alabama and Mississippi.
		By the terms of the cession agreement the Yazoo claimants were to receive 5,000,000 acres (2,025,000 hectares) or the money received from their sale, an arrangement they rejected.
		Peck, held that their land claims were valid since the Yazoo act of 1795 constituted a contract binding on Georgia even though it was conceived in fraud.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Yazoolan.html (1034 words)

	Fletcher v. Peck
		In 1789, Georgia sold much of this land (known as the Yazoo because of the presence of a river by that name in the area) to speculators, but the attempt to settle this land failed due in part to the presence of the people of the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw tribes.
		The lands in controversy vested absolutely in James Gunn and others, the original grantees, by the conveyance of the governor, made in pursuance of an act of assembly to which the legislature was fully competent.
		An additional problem facing the Yazoo land owners was that because the land was in Mississippi Territory, an ejectment action could be tried there, but under the Judiciary Act of 1789, no appeal could be taken from a judgment of a territorial court.
	www.michaelariens.com /ConLaw/cases/fletcher.htm (2580 words)

	Yazoo Land Fraud: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		By the terms of the cession agreement the Yazoo claimants were to receive 5,000,000 acres (2,025,000 hectares) or the money received from their sale, an arrangement they rejected.
		Peck, held that their land claims were valid since the Yazoo act of 1795 constituted a contract binding on Georgia even though it was conceived in fraud.
		Land settlement Social aspects Florida History...Maxwell all ventured into the no- mans-land, seeking to protect from desecration and...prosper and rule through the acquisition of land, control of dependents, and staple crop...
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/101278954 (1288 words)

	Tennessee
		She ceded her rights to her Western Lands in 1790, and in the same year, the United States Congress created the Territory of the US South of the River Ohio, or as it was more commonly know, the Southwest Territory.
		Yazoo land fraud, name given to the sale in 1795 by an act of the Georgia legislature of vast holdings in the Yazoo River country to four land companies following the wholesale bribery of the legislators; the territory comprised most of present Alabama and Mississippi.
		The land grabbing started even before the U.S. Constitution was adopted, as the land in Kentucky, which was at first part of Virginia, was handed over to absentee speculators in the 1780s.
	members.tripod.com /cornelius_carroll/id28.htm (4527 words)

	Yazoo River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Yazoo River is a river in the U.S. state of Mississippi and the second longest tributary of the Mississippi River that flows into that river from the east (the longest is the Ohio River).
		The Yazoo River was named by French explorer La Salle in 1682 in reference to the Yazoo tribe living near the river's mouth.
		The surrounding area was know as the Yazoo lands which name was lent to the Yazoo land scandal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yazoo_River (309 words)

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		The laws of the land primarily served to establish the security of the king and the feudal struc- ture of land tenure, and such rights as were protected were limited to the nobility.
		Pleas of land, however, and all that arose out of landholding, such as inheritance, down, and a vassal's obligations to his lord, were the peculiar province of the honorial court, the - 23 - court which a lord summoned for the free tenants of his fief.
		The church's prerogative was perceived as an encroachment by ecclesiastical courts upon civil ju- risdiction, and Henry was alarmed by complaints of scandal and abuses by ecclesiastical tribunals.
	www.soci.niu.edu /~jthomas/class/papers/SOCILAW.ASCII96 (21019 words)

	Yazoo land scandal
		The Yazoo Land Scandal or Yazoo Land Fraud was a massive fraud perpetrated by several Georgia governors and the state legislature from 1795 to 1803 by selling large tracts of land to insiders at ridiculously low prices.
		The U.S. government opposed Georgia's actions because at that time, a portion of the land was also claimed by Spanish West Florida and because Native American claims to the area had not been extinguished.
		The bill authorizing the Yazoo land sales was repealed in 1796, and Jackson burned all copies of the bill except for one that had been sent to President George Washington.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/y/ya/yazoo_land_scandal.html (609 words)

	The Best Yazoo Land Fraud Related Websites \| Our Fraud Directory
		North Georgia Land - Yazoo Land Fraud The Yazoo Land Fraud is a frequently misunderstood episode of North Georgia history...
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		Columbia Encyclopedia- Yazoo land fraud - AOL Research & Learn Yazoo land fraud, name given to the sale in 1795 by an act of the Georgia legislature of vast holdings in the Yazoo River country to four land companies following the wholesale bribery of the legislators; the territory comprised most of present...
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		Land companies bribed members of the General Assembly to pass a law which allowed the companies to buy 35 million acres of Georgia’s western lands extending to the Yazoo River.
		This land, which today encompasses Mississippi and Alabama, was sold for less than two cents per acre.
		The legislature also directed that the Yazoo Act be publicly burned on the statehouse grounds and that all copies of the of the legislation be destroyed.
	www.sos.state.ga.us /tours/georgia_capital_cities.htm (1917 words)

	Tennessee Harrisons - Yazoo - Harrison Repository
		Land speculation was common in those days, large and small, and did help to settle the country, but there were abuses then as now.
		The Yazoo Land Company was formed by a group of North Carolina men, who bought from the Cherokee Indians the Great Bend area in Alabama north of the TN River.
		In 1795, Georgia, which claimed half of the state of AL and MS (all land west of the AL and Coosa rivers) held a mammoth sale in which land was offered at less than one cent an acre.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~harrisonrep/thyazoo.htm (1318 words)

	georgia.gov - History of Georgia's Capital Cities
		Land companies bribed members of the General Assembly to pass a law which allowed the companies to buy 35 million acres of Georgia's western lands extending to the Yazoo River.
		This land, which today encompasses Mississippi and Alabama, was sold for less than two cents per acre.
		The legislature also directed that the Yazoo Act be publicly burned on the statehouse grounds and that all copies of the of the legislation be destroyed.
	www.georgia.gov /00/article/0,2086,4802_15177279_15252433,00.html (1933 words)

	Yazoo Fraud - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Yazoo Fraud - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Yazoo Fraud, term applied to the transaction of 1795 by which the legislature of the state of Georgia granted a large portion of the state's western...
		During the 1790s there was widespread speculation in land in Georgia.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Yazoo_Fraud.html (77 words)

	MS 2149: The Tennessee Company Land Grant, 1795
		The Tennessee Company joined the Yazoo companies in scandal in 1794, when it convinced Georgia legislators (many of whom were, conveniently, stockholders in the Tennessee Company) to sell them 40,000,000 acres of land for 500,000 USD (or approximately 1.3 cents per acre), an amount consituting a ridiculously low price for the land in question.
		The bill allowing the Yazoo land sales was repealed in 1796 and the state attempted to refund money to the various persons who had purchased land.
		This land grant gives a parcel of land to the Tennessee Company, and specifically to Zachariah Cox and Matthias Maher, which was located in what eventually became the state of Tennessee.
	www.lib.utk.edu /spcoll/manuscripts/ms2149fa.html (499 words)

	East European Constitutional Review
		In the Yazoo case, the knowledge crucial to valuation was the intention of the US Senate to sign a treaty with Spain and the willingness of particular legislators in Georgia to be bribed for their votes.
		What is most striking about the Yazoo sale is less the theft itself, than the fact that three presidents, Congress, and the Supreme Court essentially condoned the sale and that the purchasers grew wealthy with no lasting damage to their public careers.
		As in the Yazoo case, the distribution of former state assets may largely hinge on who is situated at the crossroads of politics and property.
	www.law.nyu.edu /eecr/vol6num4/feature/publictheft.html (5772 words)

	North Georgia Land - Yazoo Land Fraud
		The Yazoo Land Fraud began in 1785 with the organization of the Combined Society and the creation of Bourbon County Georgia.
		The United States accepted the transfer of the Yazoo Land Fraud claims along with the cession of Georgia's western claims in 1802.
		It was not the end of the effects of the Yazoo Land Fraud.
	www.ngeorgia.com /history/land.html (963 words)

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		New Georgia Encyclopedia: Yazoo Land Fraud was one of the most significant events in the post-Revolutionary history of Georgia.
		The bizarre climax to a decade of frenzied Yazoo land fraud â” Infoplease.com Yazoo land fraud, name given to the sale in 1795 by an act of the Peck, case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1810, involving.
		Yazoo land fraud - HighBeam Encyclopedia Yazoo land fraud name given to the sale in 1795 by an act of the Georgia legislature of vast holdings in the Yazoo River country to four land compani.
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	Land Speculation
		You cannot be insensible that North Carolina in opening her land Office tolerated all the lands on the North side of the Tennessee as far up as the mouth of Holston’s river to be entered.
		At approximately the same time the legislature ceded to the new government the western district, with the stipulations that it guarantee all old land titles, protect the institution of slavery, and otherwise establish the new territory under the provisions of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.
		The land fraud conspiracy clearly justified Federalist leaders’ decision to discard their conceptualization of “nation building” and employ a restrained and confrontational policy on the Southwestern frontier.
	www.tennesseehistory.org /Publications/Fall-2002/land_speculation.htm (9865 words)

	@ugusta: The Augusta Chronicle Online: Celebrate 2000Augusta was once capital of the state 01/03/99
		The Yazoo Act was one of the first major scandals in Georgia.
		It involved a land transaction concerning 50 million acres from the Chattahoochee River to the Mississippi River, a vast expanse considered territory belonging to Georgia.
		But the purchase was fraught with scandal when people learned the four companies offered three shares of their stock to each legislator who agreed to support the land sale.
	chronicle.augusta.com /stories/010399/cy2_124-2612.shtml (773 words)

	GeorgiaInfo - Carl Vinson Institute of Government
		Land speculators had formed companies and started trying to buy some of this land as early as 1789.
		Naturally the people who had purchased land under the act did not want to give up their claims, so they took the matter to court, and the case eventually reached the United States Supreme Court.
		The scandal finally ended in 1814 when the federal government took control of the lands in dispute and paid off all of the Yazoo claims.
	www.cviog.uga.edu /Projects/gainfo/yazoolandfraud.htm (335 words)

	Gangs of New York? Gangs of Georgia! The Yazoo Land Fraud: Political Corruption & Scandal in Early Georgia History
		[Map] This land was known as the Yazoo because of the presence of a river by that name in the area.
		In 1789, Georgia sold much of this land to speculators, but the attempt to settle this land failed due in part to the presence of several Native American tribes, the Cherokee, the Creek, the Choctaw, and the Chickasaw.
		Later, a court ruled that the contracts of sale of land under the law were binding and individuals shared in a $400,000 settlement.
	gahistory.i-found-it.net /yazoolandfraud.html (739 words)

	Georgia on the cutting edge of Indian Removal
		This land was known as the Yazoo because of the presence of a river by that name in the area.
		As a result of the Yazoo land fraud scandal, the land distribution laws were changed to a lottery system.
		In early 1835 he and his group wanted to deed a portion of the land to the United States for an amount of money to be determined by Congress, with the rest of the property deeded to the Cherokee owners.
	mgagnon.myweb.uga.edu /students/Daniel.htm (2707 words)

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		In 1795 one of Georgia's worst political scandals took place Most Georgians were outraged when they learned of Osco drug muncie in.
		Yazoo land fraud â” Infoplease.com Yazoo land fraud, name given to the sale in 1795 by an act of the Peck, case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1810, involving Janine garifalo.
		New Georgia Encyclopedia: Yazoo Land Fraud Amvescapretiement was one of the most significant events in the post-Revolutionary history of Georgia.
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	What Are the Biggest Financial Scandals in U.S. History?
		The contract with the four land companies was burned.
		In 1802 the state sold the land to the federal government for $1,250,000.
		A few years later the Supreme Court ruled that the original deal, flawed as it was, was legal and had to be honored.
	hnn.us /articles/880.html (817 words)

	Media Watch: George Will v. George Will
		So he is trying to convince readers that not all scandals are alike.
		It's "a scandal of behavior in the private sector." Hence, Republicans shouldn't be held to account, even though Enron is closely tied to the Bush administration and company officials echoed Republican boiler-plate rhetoric about the virtues of deregulation.
		In 1795 the state of Georgia sold 35 million acres of western land in an area known as Yazoo to four companies for half a million dollars, about a penny and a half an acre.
	hnn.us /articles/540.html (1212 words)

	Support for Maku Chief Black Eagle, Dr. Malachi Z. York-EL - Online Petition
		We have reclaimed 476 acres of our native land and erected landmarks such as those of our ancestors, dating back to the oldest known civilization, the Olmecs, Mayans who are the descendants of the Egyptians.
		In 1997 A.D., Howard Richard Sills was elected Sheriff of Putnam County, and from this point on, the Yamassee Native American Moors of the Creek Nation/United Nuwaubian Nation Of Moors, have found themselves involved in civil case after civil case regarding building and zoning violations.
		Both governments know that all the lands from Savannah to the borders of Alabama belong to the Yamassee Native Americans and was illegally purchased, which is known as "The Yazoo Land Scandal".
	www.gopetition.com /region/238/2655.html (1163 words)

	Westward Expansion -- The Yazoo Fraud
		Have students identify the current states that would have had land involved in the Yazoo Grants.
		After giving students the background to the Yazoo Act, have students complete the worksheet, "The Yazoo Land Fraud," to identify the major people and events involved.
		Distribute "Newspaper Headlines of the Yazoo Land Fraud" worksheet and have students write a series of newspaper headlines describing major people and events relating to the Yazoo Act.
	www.glc.k12.ga.us /BuilderV03/LPTools/lpshared/lpdisplay.asp?LPID=2175 (375 words)

	Yazoo land scandal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		U.S. Senator James Jackson and Jared Irwin led the reform efforts: Irwin was elected Governor and less than two months after taking office signed a bill nullifying the Yazoo Act on February 13, 1796.
		They burned all copies of the bill except for one that had been sent to President George Washington.
		Jackson resigned as Senator to be elected Governor of Georgia and took office two years later.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yazoo_land_scandal (597 words)

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