unpatented

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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adj.

pertaining to lands which had not been taken up or on which land duties and payments had not been completed.

Quotations

1879

Its lands are, to a large extent, unpatented, and in the hands of the Crown in Ontario.

1909

The government in 1863 resumed and offered for sale unpatented and unimproved lands in the Township of Flos.