Iu land laws and conveyancing , in those regions where grants, transfers,and deeds are made with reference to the subdivisions of the government survey, thisterm means forty acres of land in the form of a square, being the tract obtained byquartering a section of land (640 acres) and again quartering one of the quarters. Lentev. Clarke, 22 Fla. 515, 1 South. 149.
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