Public Domain

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Meaning of Public domain

In its most general sense, all landed property owned by the public. In peculiar context it has been limited to unappropriated public lands. 68 Tex. 547.

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  • Law Dictionaries.
  • Conservation ; Interior, Department of the ; Land Acts ; Land Office, U.S. General and Bureau of Plans Management ; Land Policy ; Land Speculation ; National Park System ; Public Land Commissions ; School Lands ; Western Lands.

    Public Lands.

  • Further Reading

    Durant, Robert F. The Administrative Presidency Revisited: Public Lands, the BLM, and the Reagan Revolution. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.

    Feller, Daniel. The Public Lands in Jacksonian Politics. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984.

    Goodman, Doug, and Daniel McCool, eds. Contested Landscape: The Politics of Wilderness in Utah and the West. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1999.

    Lehmann, Scott. Privatizing Public Lands. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

    Oberly, James Warren. Sixty Million Acres: American Veterans and the Public Lands before the Civil War. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1990.

    Robbins, William G., and James C. Foster, eds. Land in the American West: Private Claims and the Common Good. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000.

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