---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 194"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "194"
heading: "Trial of right of property; burden of proof"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/194"
units:
  - "Chapter 5 — Protection of Indians"
---

# §194. Trial of right of property; burden of proof


In all trials about the right of property in which an Indian may be a party on one side, and a white person on the other, the burden of proof shall rest upon the white person, whenever the Indian shall make out a presumption of title in himself from the fact of previous possession or ownership.


## Source credit

(R.S. § 2126.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

R.S. § 2126 derived from act June 30, 1834, ch. 161, § 22, 4 Stat. 733.