unappropriated land

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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

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)

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

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

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 Wall, Louise Herrick