Land Department administration
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From 202 U.S. 60 - State of Oregon v. Ethan a Hitchcock a · 1906Most cited · 191 citing opinions
where ... the legal title to all these tracts of land is still in the government [and] no patents or conveyances of any kind have been executed ... it is not a province of the courts to interfere with the Land Department in its administration. ... [I]nquiry as to equitable rights comes within the cognizance of the Land Department. Courts may not anticipate its action, or take upon themselves the administration of the land grants of the United States.