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• Oregon land fraud scandal — Congressman John N. Williamson (left), Senator John H. Mitchell (middle), U.S. attorney John Hicklin Hall (top right), and Congressman Binger Hermann (bottom right). The Oregon land fraud scandal of the early 20th century involved U.S.… …   Wikipedia

• Yazoo land fraud — (1795–1814) Scheme to sell land in Georgia. After legislators were bribed to sell Georgia s western land claims around the Yazoo River to four land companies for $500,000, public anger forced a newly elected Georgia legislature to rescind the act …   Universalium

• Land — /land/, n. Edwin Herbert, 1909 91, U.S. inventor and businessman: created the Polaroid camera. * * * I In economics, the resource that encompasses the natural resources used in production. In classical economics, the three factors of production… …   Universalium

• Land use in Oregon — Map of federal land ownership in Oregon   Bureau of Indian Affairs …   Wikipedia

• land — landlike, adj. /land/, n. 1. any part of the earth s surface not covered by a body of water; the part of the earth s surface occupied by continents and islands: Land was sighted from the crow s nest. 2. an area of ground with reference to its… …   Universalium

• fraud — n [Latin fraud fraus] 1 a: any act, expression, omission, or concealment calculated to deceive another to his or her disadvantage; specif: a misrepresentation or concealment with reference to some fact material to a transaction that is made with… …   Law dictionary

• Land of Scoundrels (poem) — Land of Scoundrels or Strana Negodyayev ( ru. Страна негодяев) is a poem by Russian poet Sergei Yesenin completed in 1923. It depicts a conflict between freedom loving anarchist rebel named Nomakh (anagram alluding to Nestor Makhno) and Bolshevik …   Wikipedia

• Fraud — Criminal law Part of …   Wikipedia

• Land patent — A land patent is evidence of right, title, and/or interest to a of land, usually granted by a central, federal, or state government) to an individual or private company. In the original 13 American Colonies, a proprietor would grant land patents …   Wikipedia

• land-grabber — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ noun : one that seizes land illegally, unfairly, or selfishly: as a. : one who secures public land by misrepresentation or fraud b. Ireland : one who takes the holding of an evicted tenant …   Useful english dictionary

• Yazoo land scandal — The Yazoo Land Scandal, Yazoo Fraud or Yazoo Land Fraud was a massive fraud perpetrated by several Georgia governors and the state legislature from 1795 to 1803 by selling large tracts of land to insiders at ridiculously low prices.The Yazoo Land …   Wikipedia