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A land patent is a form of letters patent assigning official ownership of a particular tract of land that has gone through various legally-prescribed processes like surveying and documentation, followed by the letter's signing, sealing, and publishing in public records, made by a sovereign entity.
The Kansas City Title and Trust Building in Kansas City, Missouri, is a building from 1922. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. [1]
Discovery of lands previously unknown to Europeans gave the discovering nation title to that land against all other European nations, and this title could be perfected by possession. The nation discovering that land had "the sole right of acquiring the soil from the natives, and establishing settlements upon it."
In 1803, most of the land for modern day Kansas was acquired by the United States from France as part of the 828,000 square mile Louisiana Purchase for 2.83 cents per acre. In 1854, the Kansas Territory was organized, then in 1861 Kansas became the 34th U.S. state.
The decision from the state Department of Health and Environment makes Kansas one of a handful of states that won't change transgender people's birth certificates.
A federal judge in Kansas has tossed out a machine gun possession charge and questioned if bans on the weapons violate the Second Amendment. If upheld on appeal, the ruling by U.S. District Judge ...
In 2010, Booth acquired Dr. James Naismith's original 1891 copy of the 13 basic rules of basketball at auction for $3.8 million (paying a total of $4,338,500 for the rules, auction house fees, and buyer's premium). He then donated the rules to the University of Kansas.
A new Kansas law set to go into effect on July 1st will define gender according to reproductive anatomy at birth and make it nearly impossible to change one’s gender marker on state-issued IDs.