section of lan

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section of lan - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  SECTION OF LAND. The lands of the United States are surveyed into parcels of 
  six hundred and forty acres; each such parcel is called a section. 1 Story's 
  L. U. S. 422. 
       2. These sections are divided into half sections, each of which 
  contains three hundred and twenty acres, and into quarter sections of one 
  hundred and sixty acres each.