[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: 43CFR1871.1-1]

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                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR
 
    CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 1870_ADJUDICATION PRINCIPLES AND PROCEDURES--Table of Contents
 
                         Subpart 1871_Principles
 
Sec. 1871.1-1  Cases subject to equitable adjudication.

    The cases subject to equitable adjudication by the Director, Bureau 
of Land Management, cover the following:
    (a) Substantial compliance: All classes of entries in connection 
with which the law has been substantially complied with and legal notice 
given, but the necessary citizenship status not acquired, sufficient 
proof not submitted, or full compliance with law not effected within the 
period authorized by law, or where the final proof testimony, or 
affidavits of the entryman or claimant were executed before an officer 
duly authorized to administer oaths but outside the county or land 
district, in which the land is situated, and special cases deemed proper 
by the Director, Bureau of Land Management, where the error or 
informality is satisfactorily explained as being the result of 
ignorance, mistake, or some obstacle over which the party had no 
control, or any other sufficient reason not indicating bad faith there 
being no lawful adverse claim.