Aliens—Control and Inheritance of Property—Treaty.—The question as to the rights of aliens to possess, enjoy, and inherit property in the United States is a proper subject matter of treaty; and a treaty regulating those rights must control all state legislation contrary thereto as the supreme law.

Id.—Power of State—Laws not in Conflict with Treaty.—A state has the primary right to regulate the tenure of all real property within its limits, and may allow aliens to take, hold, and dispose of property, real and personal, within the state, in so far as its laws are not in conflict with the express provisions of a paramount treaty of the United States.

Id.—Inheritable Blood—Change of Common Law.—A state may, by express law, change the common-law rule that an alien was not of inheritable blood, and may thereby remove the disability of the alien to inherit, if there is no paramount law to the contrary.

Id.—Construction of Treaty with Great Britain—Silence as to Inheritance — Validity of Code Provision.—The silence of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain upon the subject matter of the right of citizens of Great Britain to inherit property within the United States, is not equivalent to a denial of that right, and cannot affect the power of a state to confer the right. That treaty is not in conflict with section 671 of our Civil Code, allowing aliens, including citizens of Great Britain, to “take, hold, and dispose of property, real and personal, within this state.”

In.—Nonbesident Aliens—Operation of Code.—The provisions of section 671 of the Civil Code are not made to operate extraterritorially, by conferring a right upon nonresident aliens to take and hold property within this state. That section merely provides a rule with respect to property within the state, and confers a right to be enjoyed within its jurisdiction.

Id.—Construction op State Constitution.—Section 17 of article I of the state constitution is merely intended to secure the rights of foreigners of the classes named, and does not operate as a limitation upon the power of the legislature to extend similar privileges to other foreigners or aliens.