---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 2502"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "2502"
heading: "Adjudications as to suspended entries; approval"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/2502"
units:
  - "Chapter 43 — Suspended Entries and Claims; Patents"
---

# §2502. Adjudications as to suspended entries; approval


Every such adjudication shall be approved by the [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7) of the Interior and shall operate only to divest the United States of the title to the land embraced thereby, without prejudice to the rights of conflicting claimants.


## Source credit

(R.S. § 2451; Feb. 27, 1877, ch. 69, § 1, 19 Stat. 244; Sept. 20, 1922, ch. 350, 42 Stat. 858.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 1162 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

R.S. § 2451 derived from acts Aug. 3, 1846, ch. 78, § 1, 9 Stat. 51; Feb. 27, 1877. ch. 69, § 1, 19 Stat. 244.