land patent

American  

noun

1. an official document by which title to a portion of public land is conveyed from the government.

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Etymology

Origin of land patent

An Americanism dating back to 1835–45

Example Sentences

In an unusual ruling, that San Mateo County Superior Court judge determined the because the property dates to a Spanish land grant and is held under a U.S. land patent there is no such right.

From Los Angeles Times

The alliance is pushing African countries into agreements that allow foreign companies to grab their land, patent their seeds and monopolise their food markets.

From The Guardian

The average land patent in Virginia in the last decades of the century gave title to from six hundred to eight hundred acres, but many of the plantations covered from ten thousand to twenty thousand acres.

From Project Gutenberg

It has always been the plaything of Albert M. Johnson, and is still subject to purchase by the Government under the terms of the land patent granted to Johnson.

From Time Magazine Archive

He owns two-thirds of an acre with a 150-foot lake frontage, purchased from the holder of the original land patent before the park was created in 1910.

From Time Magazine Archive