[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 43, Volume 2]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

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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