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Ballentine's Law Dictionary · James A. Ballentine · 1916

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

Recordation; noting in a record; going upon land; taking actual possession of land; the acquisition of an inceptive right by filing a claim.

See 12 Wheat. (U. S.) 586, 6 L. Ed. 737.