Title 43, Public LandsRelease 119-102
§2504 Extent of Foregoing Provisions
Title 43 › CHAPTER 43 — SUSPENDED ENTRIES AND CLAIMS; PATENTS › § 2504
Summary
Apply the earlier rules to any suspended land entry or location the Bureau of Land Management has had since June 26, 1856, and to similar cases that happen later. That includes claims from bounty-land warrants, regular entries or sales, homesteads, and preemptions, but only when the law was mostly followed, any error or mistake is clearly explained, and no one else’s rights are harmed or no opposing claim exists.
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Title 43, §2504
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Sections 2501 to 2503 of this title shall be applicable to all cases of suspended entries and locations, which have arisen in the Bureau of Land Management since the 26th day of June 1856 as well as to all cases of a similar kind which may hereafter occur, embracing as well locations under bounty-land warrants as ordinary entries or sales, including homestead entries and preemption locations or cases; where the law has been substantially complied with, and the error or informality arose from ignorance, accident, or mistake which is satisfactorily explained; and where the rights of no other claimant or preemptor are prejudiced, or where there is no adverse claim.
Legislative History
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Editorial Notes
Codification Section was formerly classified to section 1164 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section. R.S. § 2457 derived from act June 26, 1856, ch. 47, 11 Stat. 22.
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Transfer of Functions
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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. “Bureau of Land Management” substituted for “General Land Office” 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. § 2504
Title 43, Public Lands
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102