unappropriated land

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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 MacMechan, Archibald

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 Kinzie, Juliette Augusta Magill

The only unappropriated land between Dunstable and Townsend, as asked for in the petition, lay in the angle made by the western boundary of Dunstable and the northern boundary of Townsend.

From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1884 by Various

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 Malthus, T. R. (Thomas Robert)

He believed that the government should, by all possible precautions, preserve unappropriated land for the use of the community, as opposed to selfish schemes of individual aggrandizement.

From Roland Graeme: Knight A Novel of Our Time by Machar, Agnes Maule