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Definition of Land office
1. Noun. A government office where business relating to public lands is transacted.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Land Office
Literary usage of Land office
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1910)
"Stmt. of work done In land office during last 16 yrs., given to show that clerical
... Rept. of register of land office in answer to res. requesting no. of ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"this a« other than manifest injustice and n grievous wrong. And it can fare but
little bettor with an educated lawyer. The land office of ..."
3. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1914)
"The Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of the General land office
may be enjoined from casting a cloud on a title vested by an approved location ..."
4. United States Supreme Court Reports by United States Supreme Court, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1911)
"There can be no doubt, from the facts in the case, which appear in the correspondence
of the General land office, and otherwise, that the application to ..."
5. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1860)
"And be it further enacted, That there shall be appointed by the President, by
and with consent of the Senate, a Recorder of the General land office, ..."
6. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1906)
"Their notes and those of other institutions which they saw fit to receive on
deposit formed what was called land-office money, for nothing else, ..."
7. A Treatise on the Law of Surveying and Boundaries by Frank Emerson Clark (1922)
"Reorganization of general land office.—The land office was reorganized under the
act of July 4, 1836, which provided the executive duties of that office, ..."
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