[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 43, Volume 2]
[Revised as of October 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 43CFR1865.0-5]

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                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR
 
    CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 1860_CONVEYANCES, DISCLAIMERS AND CORRECTION DOCUMENTS--Table of Contents
 
            Subpart 1865_Correction of Conveyancing Documents
 
Sec. 1865.0-5  Definitions.

    As used in this subpart, the term:
    (a) Authorized officer means any employee of the Bureau of Land 
Management to whom has been delegated the authority to perform the 
duties described in this subpart.
    (b) Error means the inclusion of erroneous descriptions, terms, 
conditions, covenants, reservations, provisions and names or the 
omission of requisite descriptions, terms, conditions, covenants, 
reservations, provisions and names either in their entirety or in part, 
in a patent or document of conveyance as a result of factual error. This 
term is limited to mistakes of fact and not of law.
    (c) Patents or other documents of conveyance means a land patent, a 
deed or some other similar instrument in the chain of title to realty 
that has been issued by the United States under laws administered by the 
Bureau of Land Management or its predecessors pertaining to the disposal 
of the public lands of the United States or of an interest therein. It 
also includes interim conveyances issued under the Alaska Native Claims 
Settlement Act, as amended (43 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and approvals and 
tentative approvals issued under the Act of July 7, 1958, as amended (72 
Stat. 339).
    (d) Lands mean lands or interest in lands.

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