§ 347. — Limitations of actions for lands patented in severalty under treaties.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 25USC347]
TITLE 25--INDIANS
CHAPTER 9--ALLOTMENT OF INDIAN LANDS
Sec. 347. Limitations of actions for lands patented in severalty
under treaties
In all actions brought in any State court or United States court by
any patentee, his heirs, grantees, or any person claiming under such
patentee, for the possession or rents or profits of lands patented in
severalty to the members of any tribe of Indians under any treaty
between it and the United States of America, where a deed has been
approved by the Secretary of the Interior to the land sought to be
recovered, the statutes of limitations of the States in which said land
is situate shall be held to apply, and it shall be a complete defense to
such action that the same has not been brought within the time
prescribed by the statutes of said State the same as if such action had
been brought for the recovery of land patented to others than members of
any tribe of Indians.
(May 31, 1902, ch. 946, Sec. 1, 32 Stat. 284.)
