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From: Douglas Burbury <>
Subject: Question about land transactions
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 11:18:08 +1100

Hi List,

I only index 'em, I don't necessarily know much about 'em.

I have a question about gaining ownership of land in the early days.

The question is basically, what is the difference between a "location" and
a "grant"?

For example, in the memorial of a land transaction in the 1840s, it
mentions that three parcels of land at Eastern Marshes had been "located"
to a Francis BRYANT since the 1820s, and this Francis Bryant was "entitled
to grants from the Crown for the same" (i.e. for the three parcels),
implying that he had not actually had the land officially granted to him.

Bryant then sold the land to a William NICHOLLS in 1838, and as part of the
transaction, the parcels were formally granted *from the Crown* to the
solicitors Robert PITCAIRN and George CARTWRIGHT in trust until Nicholls
completed the sale.

So what was the status of this "locating"? Was it something like squatting,
i.e. ownership by right of occupation, but the grant from the Crown was
needed in order to affirm the squatter's right that the land was his to sell?

Douglas


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