[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: 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.