Episode # 131 "Bounty Lands"

More notes to be added Saturday morning.

Bounty Lands - "Bounty land refers to a grant of free land awarded by the government to individuals as a reward for their service to the country, typically for military service. This land is provided through a certificate known as a Bounty Land Warrant. This warrant confirms a veteran's eligibility to apply for ownership of a specific amount of public land. To obtain this land, veterans must submit an application for the bounty-land warrant. Once approved, they receive notification that the warrant has been issued in their name and is recorded in the General Land Office." https://legal-resources.uslegalforms.com/b/bounty-land

1 U.S. Code § 8 - “Person”, “human being”, “child”, and “individual” as including born-alive infant  https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/1/8

Land Grant - "A land grant is a gift of real estate—land or its use privileges—made by a government or other authority as an incentive, means of enabling works, or as a reward for services to an individual, especially in return for military service. Grants of land are also awarded to individuals and companies as incentives to develop unused land in relatively unpopulated countries; the process of awarding land grants are not limited to the countries named below. The United States historically gave out numerous land grants as homesteads to individuals desiring to make a farm. The American Industrial Revolution was guided by many supportive acts of legislatures (for example, the Main Line of Public Works legislation of 1863) promoting commerce or transportation infrastructure ..." 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_grant

Terra nullius is a Latin expression meaning "nobody's land". Since the nineteenth century it has occasionally been used in international law as a principle to justify claims that territory may be acquired by a state's occupation of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_nullius