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  2. Luis Maria Baca Grant No. 4 - Wikipedia

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    Headquarters gate. The Luis Maria Baca Grant No. 4, south of Crestone, Colorado, was a large land grant made in 1860 by the United States to the heirs of the original Vegas Grandes Grant to Baca family of New Mexico at Las Vegas, New Mexico. [1] [2] [3] Title to the grant at Las Vegas was clouded by a second grant of the same land. [3]

  3. Homestead Acts - Wikipedia

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    The Homestead Acts were several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain, typically called a homestead. In all, more than 160 million acres (650 thousand km 2; 250 thousand sq mi) of public land, or nearly 10 percent of the total area of the United States, was given away ...

  4. Land grants in New Mexico and Colorado - Wikipedia

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    Land grants by the Spanish and Mexicans between 1692 and 1846 numbered 291 in New Mexico, four partly in New Mexico and partly in Colorado, and three in Colorado. The land area of grants totaled tens of thousands of square miles. "The two major types of land grants were private grants made to individuals, and communal grants made to groups of ...

  5. Louisiana Purchase - Wikipedia

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    e. The Louisiana Purchase ( French: Vente de la Louisiane, lit. 'Sale of Louisiana') was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803. This consisted of most of the land in the Mississippi River's drainage basin west of the river. [1] In return for fifteen million dollars, [a] or ...

  6. Inaja Land Co. v. Commissioner - Wikipedia

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    Inaja Land Co., Ltd. v. Commissioner, 9 T.C. 727 (1947) was a United States income tax case which discussed whether, and how much, basis the taxpayer could recover to offset a gain from compensation from the government for an easement on his land.

  7. Settled Land Acts - Wikipedia

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    The acts apply whenever there is a settlement. A settlement is defined by s2 (1) of the 1882 act as "any land or any estate or interest in land, which stands for the time being limited to or in trust for any persons by way of succession". Basically, whenever a document creates a succession of interests in land the Settled Land Acts will apply.

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