48 U.S.C. § 1507
Section 1507 · Public lands
Amended 3 times on record
Applied in 1 court decisions — leading case Larkin v. Washington Loan & Trust Co. (1929)
Most recently applied (March 1929)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
This chapter shall not in any manner be construed to authorize aliens to acquire title from the United States to any of the public lands of the United States or to in any manner affect or change the laws regulating the disposal of the public lands of the United States.
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
Codification
Act Feb. 23, 1905, set out as section 1508 of this title, made sections 1501 to 1507 of this title applicable to the District of Columbia, on the basis of which certain provisions of this section were omitted.
Section was formerly classified to section 77 of Title 8, Aliens and Nationality.