STATE of Oklahoma ex rel. Jan Eric CARTWRIGHT, Attorney General of Oklahoma, Appellant,
v.
HILLCREST INVESTMENTS, LTD., Appellee.
Supreme Court of Oklahoma.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
March 10, 1981.
Rehearing Denied July 23, 1981.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Jan Eric Cartwright, Atty. Gen., Manville T. Buford, John Paul Johnson, John F. Percival, Asst. Attys. Gen., Oklahoma City, for appellant.
McAfee & Taft, P.C. by Joseph G. Rucks, John E. Sargent, Jr., Reid E. Robison, Oklahoma City, for appellee.
Denzil Garrison, Garrison, Brown & Carlson, Bartlesville, Robert H. Mitchell, Ryan, Cain, Mitchell & Muldowney, Oklahoma City, Cynthia Wicker, Stanley T. Kaleczyc, Stephen A. Bokat, Shannon D. DiBari, National Center Litigation Center, Washington, D.C., for amici curiae Oklahoma State Chamber of Commerce and Oklahomans for Economic Progress.
Supreme Court of Oklahoma.
BARNES, Vice Chief Justice:
Alien ownership of land has, throughout our Anglo-Saxon legal history, been rigidly controlled.1 At common law, aliens could own land until their alienage had been established in a judicial proceeding. Once their alienage was established, the land escheated to the Crown.2 This common law rule was held to be part of American law in Fairfax...
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