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Land offices

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

Governmental offices, subordinate to the general land office, established in various parts of the United States, for the transaction of local business relating to the survey, location, settlement, pre-emption, and sale of the public lands. See "General land office," supra -Land-poor. By this term is generally understood that a man has a great deal of unproductive land, and perhaps is obliged to borrow money to pay taxes; but a man "land-poor" may be largely responsible.

Mat-teson v. Blackmer, 46 Mich. 397, 9 N. W. 445.