Indemnity lands
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
Lands granted to railroads, in aid of their construction, being portions of the public domain, to be selected in lieu of other parcels embraced within the original grant, but which were lost to the railroad by previous disposition or by reservation for other purposes.
See Wisconsin Cent. R. Co. v. Price County, 133 U. S. 496 , 10 Sup. Ct. 341, 33 I,. Ed. 687; Barney v. Winona & St. P. R. Co., 117 U. S. 228 , 6 Sup. Ct. 654, 29 In Ed. 858; Altschul v. Clark, 39 Or. 315, 65 Pac. 991.