Inceptive homestead right
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From 232 U.S. 452 - Edwin Gauthier v. Peter Morrison · 1914Most cited · 87 citing opinions
The homestead law in terms subjects unsurveyed public lands, if agricultural and unappropriated, to settlement by persons having the requisite qualifications and intending to comply with its requirements as a means of acquiring the title, and also plainly confers upon the settler the right of possession, without which compliance with those requirements would be impossible. ... by his settlement and subsequent acts he acquired an inceptive homestead right which entitled him to the possession.