unappropriated land

This approximation is always the nearest in new colonies, where the knowledge and industry of an old state operate on the fertile unappropriated land of a new one.

From An Essay on the Principle of Population by T. R. (Thomas Robert) Malthus

The official figures at the end of the fiscal year, June 30, 1917, show this: We have unappropriated land in the continental United States to the amount of 230,657,755 acres.

From Letters of Franklin K. Lane by Louise Herrick Wall

The next considerable tract of unappropriated land is the district called the Five Islands.

From Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land With a Particular Enumeration of the Advantages Which These Colonies Offer for Emigration, and Their Superiority in Many Respects Over Those Possessed by the United States of America by William Charles Wentworth

The applicants had liberty to select their complement of fifty-eight acres out of any unappropriated land that suited them.

From Wau-bun The Early Day in the Northwest by Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie

This was the first step, preliminary to devoting the unappropriated land to the maintenance of the school system.

From The Winning of Popular Government A Chronicle of the Union of 1841 by Archibald MacMechan