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Alienated land is land which has been acquired from customary landowners by the government, either for its own use or for private development. The term refers historically to the appropriation of customary land by European colonial powers, such as the acquisition of customary land in the Yucatán that preceded the Caste War of Yucatán (1847-1915), in which the native Maya population rebelled ...
In property law, alienation is the voluntary act of an owner of some property to convey or transfer the property to another. [1] Alienability is the quality of being alienable, i.e., the capacity for a piece of property or a property right to be sold or otherwise transferred from one party to another.
The lure of the land: A social history of the public lands from the Articles of Confederation to the New Deal (U of Nebraska Press, 1970) online; Gates, Paul Wallace. History of public land law development (US Government Printing Office, 1968). online; Hibbard, Benjamin Horace. A history of the public land policies (1924) online; Kammer, Sean.
Utah Republican politicians are attempting to strip protections for 18.5 million acres of Americas’ public lands, which would open the door to privatization of public lands in states from New ...
The establishment of public parks and gardens, as was the case for the Royal Parks of London in the UK. These public spaces were created under such terms by the Crown Estate; which meant that these parks were held in perpetuity for the public to use. Some specific restraints on alienation in the United States include: Disabling restraints
The doctrine has also been used to provide public access across and provide for continued public interest in those areas where land beneath tidally influenced waters has been filled. In some cases, the uses of that land have been limited (to transportation, for instance) and in others, there has been provision for public access across them.
Lands held by the United States in trust for Native American tribes are generally not considered public lands. [8] There are some 55 million acres (0.22 million km 2 ) of land held in trust by the federal government for Indian tribes and almost 11 million acres (45 thousand km 2 ) of land held in trust by the federal government for individual ...
Tile IV, Database of BLM Lands Formerly H.R. 2095. Title IV would prohibit Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from acquiring new lands until the agency develops a public database of all BLM lands that have been identified for disposal. Based on information provided by BLM, CBO expects that the agency would need less than a year to construct the ...