Float
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
A certificate authorizing the party possessing it to enter a certain amount of public land.
Marks v. Dickson, 20 How. (U. S.) 604, 15 L. Ed. 1002.
A' Mexican grant of quantity, as of a certain number of leagues of land lying within a larger tract, whose boundaries are given, is a float, subject to location within the tract by the government before it can attach to any specific lands; Carr v. Quigley, 149 U. S. 652, 13 Sup. Ct. 961, 37 L. Ed. 885; U. S. V. Mc Laughlin, 127 U. S. 428, 8 Sup. Ct 1177, 32 L. Ed. 213.