Land department

That office of the United States government which bas jurisdiction and charge of the public lands, including the secretary of the interior and the commissioner of the general land office and their subordinate officers, and being in effect the department of the interior considered with reference to its powers and duties concerning the public lands. See U. S. v. Winona & St. P. R. Co., 67 Fed. 956, 15 C. C. A. 96 ; Northern Pac. R. Co., v. Barden (C. Ct) 46 Fed. 617.

Defined under Land in Black's Law Dictionary.