25 U.S.C. § 378 — Partition of allotment among heirs; patents
U.S.C. Title 25 - INDIANS 25 U.S.C. United States Code, 2023 Edition Title 25 - INDIANS CHAPTER 10 - DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION; HEIRS OF ALLOTTEE Sec. 378 - Partition of allotment among heirs; patents From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov
§378. Partition of allotment among heirs; patents
If the Secretary of the Interior shall find that any inherited trust allotment or allotments are capable of partition to the advantage of the heirs, he may cause such lands to be partitioned among them, regardless of their competency, patents in fee to be issued to the competent heirs for their shares and trust patents to be issued to the incompetent heirs for the lands respectively or jointly set apart to them, the trust period to terminate in accordance with the terms of the original patent or order of extension of the trust period set out in said patent.
(May 18, 1916, ch. 125, §1, 39 Stat. 127.)