Township
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The public lands of the ^M^*f «.®***®?.*'^®..^™^^y®<l first into tracts called "townships,'; being in extent six miles ^^^,^1% ^^? subdivisions of a township are called "sections," each a mile square, and containing six hundred and forty acres These are subdivided into quarter sections, ■was adopted by Act Cong. May 18, 1796.
See Brightly, Dig. U. S. Laws, 493.
In some states the largest subdivision of a county.
See Town.