If the tribe is unrecognized, the defendant may defeat the plaintiff's prima facie case either by showing that the Indians did not constitute a " tribe " at the time of the conveyance, or at the time of the litigation; thus, the defendant may show that the plaintiff is not the successor in interest to the tribe whose lands were illegally alienated.
22.
The contract between IBM and AT & T Corporation ( to which SCO claims to be successor in interest ) allows IBM to use the SVR4 code, but the SVR4 code, plus any derivative works made from that code, must be held confidential by IBM . According to IBM's interpretation of the contract, and the interpretation published by AT & T in their " $ echo " newsletter in 1985, " derivative works " means any works containing SVR4 code.
23.
In the 1990s, Guterman planned, organized and directly negotiated the acquisition of thirty-one multiple tenant office buildings containing more than three million two hundred fifty thousand ( 3, 250, 000 ) net rentable square feet of office space located in Eight States, as well as the largest, single, direct purchase of office properties ( Patriot American Investors ) in the history of the Resolution Trust Corporation and its successors in interest, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation.
24.
The name " hessian " is attributed to the use of the fabric, initially, as part of the uniform of soldiers from the former Landgraviate of Hesse and its successors in interest ( including the current German state of Hesse though its earliest known appearance is in the late 17th century, and its etymology is speculated to derive from the Middle English " borel " ( " coarse cloth " ), the Old French " burel " and / or the Dutch " boeren " ( " coarse " ), in the latter case perhaps interfused with " boer " ( " peasant " ).
25.
The Tennessee Coach Company continued to run that leased segment ( between Knoxville and Bristol ) & ndash; and on that route took part in through-schedules ( interlined pool operations ) & ndash; that is, the use of through-coaches on through-routes running through the territories of two or more operating companies & ndash; in cooperation with the Atlantic GL, the Memphis and Washington & ndash; until 1956, when the TCC joined the Trailways trade association ( then named as the National Trailways Bus System ), and when the TCC returned its leased right to that segment to the Atlantic GL ( as the successor in interest of the OD Stages ) & ndash; as a part of the deal related to the dissociation of the TCC from Greyhound.
