43 U.S.C. § 2504 — Extent of foregoing provisions
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Sections 2501 through 2503 apply to specified old and future suspended-entry and location cases when the listed conditions exist.
Sections 2501 through 2503 apply to suspended-entry and location cases that have arisen in the Bureau of Land Management since June 26, 1856, and to similar cases that later arise. This includes bounty-land-warrant locations, ordinary entries or sales, homestead entries, and preemption locations or cases. The law must have been substantially followed; the error or formality must be satisfactorily explained by ignorance, accident, or mistake; and no other claimant’s or preemptor’s rights may be harmed, or there must be no adverse claim.
Sections 2501 to 2503 of this title shall be applicable to all cases of suspended entries and locations, which have arisen in the Bureau of Land Management since the 26th day of June 1856 as well as to all cases of a similar kind which may hereafter occur, embracing as well locations under bounty-land warrants as ordinary entries or sales, including homestead entries and preemption locations or cases; where the law has been substantially complied with, and the error or informality arose from ignorance, accident, or mistake which is satisfactorily explained; and where the rights of no other claimant or preemptor are prejudiced, or where there is no adverse claim.
Source credit: (R.S. § 2457; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, § 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)
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