unappropriated land

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

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

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 Wentworth, William Charles

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

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)