The Preferential Treatment of the Actual Settler in the Primary Disposition of the Vacant Lands in the United States to 1841

• Author(s): Henry Tatter,
• Publisher: Tatter Dissertations
• Pages: 389
• ISBN_10: 0405113676
  ISBN_13: 9780405113673
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877) , Law / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice , Law / Land Use ,

Description:... The author provides a comprehensive outline of the legal rights of the frontier settler in the acquisition of the fee simple title to a limited quantity of unappropriated vacant land during the period up to 1841 in the United States. These rights were the basis for future mineral laws and the Homestead Act.