§907 Rights of Original Grantees to Forfeited Lands

Summary

Lands that are lost under sections 904 to 907 do not become the property or benefit of any State or company that Congress once gave land to, unless those sections specifically say otherwise. These rules do not make a grant bigger than it was at first, and they do not give a State, company, or person rights to land that was left out of the original grant. If a railroad had grants for a main line and a branch line and some land was forfeited under section 904, the forfeited land that falls inside the overlapping grant areas does not automatically go to the line that was finished when the other line is still uncompleted.