 To solve this problem, Congress passed the Indian Lands Consolidation Act, stopping interests in land constituting less than 2% of the total ownership from being further divided up through a will or by intestate succession (property that passes without a will upon the death of the owner).Instead such interests would become property of the tribes.In Hodel v. Irving, 481 U.S. 704 (1987), the Supreme Court held that a “complete abolition of both the descent and devise of a particular class of property may be a taking.” It found that even though only a single strand of the property was affected, it was nevertheless an uncompensated taking that violated the Fifth Amendment.