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Jun 29, 2015 property-law public-land-act free-patent void-contract laches land-titling

Protecting Public Land: The Nullity of Sales Within the Five-Year Prohibitory Period

A sale of free patent land within five years is void ab initio, imprescriptible, and cannot be cured by laches.