LAND DEPARTMENT

By SovConn | September 18, 2013

land department.A federal or state bureau that determines factual matters regarding the control and transfer of public land. • The federal land department includes the General Land Office headed by the Secretary of the Interior. See DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. [Cases: Public Lands  94.C.J.S. Public Lands §§ 167–168.]

 [Blacks Law 8th]

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