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Pennsylvania Statutes Title 64 P.S. Public Lands § 157. When persons holding under prevention patents shall be granted new patents

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

Where patents, commonly called prevention patents, have issued to said party or parties for said land, and he, she or they shall request a new patent for the same land, it shall be granted on payment of the usual fees of office, and on delivering up the old patent to the secretary of the land-office,  1 that it may be cancelled.

1 See 71 P.S. §§ 917 to 923. The Land Office, as provided for in 71 P.S. § 333, is now an administrative entity located in the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. See 71 P.S. § 1709.902.
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