This law grew out of the earlier decree which had said that all "unoccupied" land belonged to the state.

After 1860 the township filled up rapidly and little unoccupied land was to be found anywhere in its boundaries.

With so much unoccupied land available on the island no one could say why these people chose to live as they did.

Europeans who have not visited this region might be astounded at the amount of unoccupied land.

"I've never seen so much unoccupied, unused land at one time in my life."

This world is just about empty and the unoccupied land is probably fertile.

The idea was to form a joint stock company to develop all unoccupied land in the kingdom.

It was an unoccupied arid land till the first occupants moved here to start a living by farming.

In 1836, a bill was passed to place a penal tax on unoccupied land.

Or shown any authority over what is clearly unoccupied land.