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Definition of Yazoo Fraud

Yazoo Fraud
Yazoo Fraud Yaz"oo Fraud (U. S. Hist.) The grant by the State of Georgia, by Act of Jan. 7, 1795, of 35,000,000 acres of her western territory, for $500,000, to four companies known as the Yazoo Companies from the region granted; -- commonly so called, the act being known as the Yazoo Frauds Act, because of alleged corruption of the legislature, every member but one being a shareholder in one or more of the companies. The act granting the land was repealed in 1796 by a new legislature, and the repealing provision was incorporated in the State constitution in 1798. In 1802 the territory was ceded to the United States. The claims of the purchasers, whom Georgia had refused to compensate, were sustained by the United States Supreme Court, which (1810) declared the repealing act of 1796 unconstitutional. Congress in 1814 ordered the lands sold and appropriated $5,000,000 to pay the claims.

Meaning of Yazoo Fraud from wikipedia

- The Yazoo land scandal, Yazoo fraud, Yazoo land fraud, or Yazoo land controversy was a m****ive real-estate fraud perpetrated, in the mid-1790s, by Georgia...
- Correctional Complex, Yazoo City (FCC Yazoo City) is a United States federal prison complex for male offenders in unincorporated Yazoo County, Mississippi...
- Charleston: Walker and James. pp. 408–428. "The Pine Barrens Speculation and Yazoo Land Fraud". About North Georgia. Archived from the original on November 3, 2013...
- Press. p. 41-45. "Yazoo Land Fraud". New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved May 8, 2024. Lamplugh, George B. (3015). Yazoo Land Fraud. New Georgia Encyclopedia...
- Town Plantation historical marker Rocky Comfort Cr**** historical marker Yazoo Fraud historical marker 33°03′N 82°25′W / 33.05°N 82.42°W / 33.05; -82.42...
- had been recorded in Bridgeport as part of a session with the band "Yazoo Fraud," then under contract with Leka's production company. Bronson, Fred (2003)...
- The Mississippi Delta, also known as the Yazoo–Mississippi Delta, or simply the Delta, is the distinctive northwest section of the U.S. state of Mississippi...
- new do****ent prohibited land sales similar to those which prompted the Yazoo fraud. The 1802 cession by which Georgia transferred its western lands to the...
- Fletcher v. Peck. About North Georgia, The Pine Barrens Speculation and Yazoo Land Fraud Archived 2013-11-03 at the Wayback Machine, archived 30 October 2018...
- The county was created by Georgia in 1785 as part of the Yazoo land scandal out of disputed Yazoo lands in present-day Mississippi and was dissolved in 1788...