2013 US Code
Title 25 - Indians
Chapter 10 - DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION; HEIRS OF ALLOTTEE (§§ 371 - 380)
Section 378 - Partition of allotment among heirs; patents

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Publication TitleUnited States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 1, Title 25 - INDIANS
CategoryBills and Statutes
CollectionUnited States Code
SuDoc Class NumberY 1.2/5:
Contained WithinTitle 25 - INDIANS
CHAPTER 10 - DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION; HEIRS OF ALLOTTEE
Sec. 378 - Partition of allotment among heirs; patents
Containssection 378
Date2013
Laws in Effect as of DateJanuary 16, 2014
Positive LawNo
Dispositionstandard
Source CreditMay 18, 1916, ch. 125, §1, 39 Stat. 127.
Statutes at Large Reference39 Stat. 127

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Partition of allotment among heirs; patents - 25 U.S.C. § 378 (2013)
§378. Partition of allotment among heirs; patents

If the Secretary of the Interior shall find that any inherited trust allotment or allotments are capable of partition to the advantage of the heirs, he may cause such lands to be partitioned among them, regardless of their competency, patents in fee to be issued to the competent heirs for their shares and trust patents to be issued to the incompetent heirs for the lands respectively or jointly set apart to them, the trust period to terminate in accordance with the terms of the original patent or order of extension of the trust period set out in said patent.

(May 18, 1916, ch. 125, §1, 39 Stat. 127.)

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