Title 43, Public LandsRelease 119-102
§2502 Adjudications as to Suspended Entries; Approval
Title 43 › CHAPTER 43 — SUSPENDED ENTRIES AND CLAIMS; PATENTS › § 2502
Summary
Interior Secretary must approve decisions; they only remove U.S. ownership of the land and leave others' competing claims intact.
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Title 43, §2502
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Every such adjudication shall be approved by the Secretary of the Interior and shall operate only to divest the United States of the title to the land embraced thereby, without prejudice to the rights of conflicting claimants.
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Codification Section was formerly classified to section 1162 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section. R.S. § 2451 derived from acts Aug. 3, 1846, ch. 78, § 1, 9 Stat. 51; Feb. 27, 1877. ch. 69, § 1, 19 Stat. 244.
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43 U.S.C. § 2502
Title 43, Public Lands
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102