Native Americans are allowed to own property, with some restrictions.

General Court rules, “that the Native Americans had a just right to such lands as they possessed and improved by subduing the same.” But, according to George Edward Ellis of the Massachusetts Historical Society, if the Native Americans could not prove “actual occupation by tillage,” the court considered land vacuum domicillium (empty of habitation) and could be occupied by members of the colony under the authority of the patent granted by King Charles I.