Durant v. Corbin’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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1. ““Legal subdivisions of forty acres may be subdivided into ten-acre tracts; and two or more persons, or associates of persons, having contiguous claims of any size, although such claims may be less than ten acres each, may make joint entry thereof; but no location of a placer claim, made after the ninth day of July,. eighteen hundred and seventy, shall exceed one hundred and sixty acres for any one person, or association of persons, which location shall conform to the United States surveys.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Nome & Sinook Co. v. Snyder

2. “among as large a number as possible of those who wish to acquire such land for their own use, rather than to favor a few individuals, who might wish to acquire princely fortunes by securing large tracts of such land,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Rundle v. Republic Cement Corporation