Lockhard v. Asher Lumber Co.’s Empirical Analysis
123 F. 480 · 1903
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2
cited by 2 later decisions
February 1910
most recently cited
1 federal appellate ·
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Relies on William Marbury v. James Madison · Cohens v. Virginia · St.louis Smelting and Refining Company v. Kemp. · Peck v. Jenness · Pollard v. Bailey
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““Any person who wishes to appropriate any vacant and unappropriated lands, may, on application to the county court of the county in which the same lies, and paying at such price as the court may allow, not less than five dollars per hundred acres, therefor, obtain an order of court authorizing him to enter and survey any number of acres of such land in the county, not less than twenty-five nor more than two hundred. “1. The party obtaining such order may, by an entry in the surveyor’s book of the county, describing the same, appropriate the quantity of land it calls for in one or more parcels, as he may think proper. “2. The surveyor shall survey the entries in the succession in which the same are made, bounding tbe same by plainly marked trees, stones, or stakes, noting where it binds on a watercourse, or the marked line of another survey, giving names. It shall be made in the presence of two disinterested housekeepers as ehainmen, whose names must be placed at the bottom of tbe plat and certificate. “3. Such survey must be made within two months from and after the date of the entry. “4. A plat and certificate of the survey must he made out by the surveyor and recorded in his books, and the original thereof, and a cof)y of the order of the court under which it is made, must be deposited in the register’s office within four months after the survey is made. “5. A patent may issue on the survey within three months after a plat and certificate thereof, and a copy of the order ar”
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