FORTY

In land laws and conveyancing, In those regions where grants, transfers, and deeds are made with reference to the subdivisions of the government survey, this term means forty acres of land in the form of a square; being the tract obtained by quarter-. Ing a section of land (640 acres) and again quartering one of the quarters. Lente ·v. Clarke, 22 Fla. 515, 1 South. 149. [s. 523]