Title 43, Public LandsRelease 119-102
§100 Disqualification
Title 43 › CHAPTER 4 — DISTRICT LAND OFFICES › § 100
Summary
An officer must not take part in cases at district land offices if he has an interest, was counsel for a party, or is related within the fourth degree by common law.
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Title 43, §100
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No officer shall receive evidence in, hear, or determine any cause pending in any district land office in which cause he is interested directly or indirectly, or has been of counsel, or where he is related to any of the parties in interest by consanguinity or affinity within the fourth degree, computing by the rules adopted by the common law.
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Editorial Notes
Codification This section, as originally enacted, was applicable to both registers and receivers. The office of receiver was abolished by acts Oct. 28, 1921, and Mar. 3, 1925, which consolidated the two offices. See, also,
Transfer of Functions
note below.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
For
Transfer of Functions
of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out under section 1451 of this title. Word “officer” substituted for “register” on authority of section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946. See note set out under section 1 of this title.
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43 U.S.C. § 100
Title 43, Public Lands
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102