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· 7/1/1880

Medley v. Robertson

Citations

  • 55 Cal. 396

Syllabus

<p>State Lands — Survey — Deitnition. — Sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections are deemed to be surveyed, for the purposes mentioned in § 3195, Political Code, only when the plat of the survey of the township has been approved by the United States Surveyor-General.</p> <p>Id. — Id. — Case Overruled.—Dictum to the contrary in Oakley v. Stuart, 52 Cal. 522, overruled.</p> <p>Id.—Id.—Application to Purchase.—The title to a particular 16th or 36th section does not vest in the State before the plat of the survey of the township has been approved by the United States Surveyor-General; and an application to purchase such land, made before the approval of the survey, is unauthorized and void.</p>

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