11 - Power to confirm defective grant.

§ 11. Power  to  confirm defective grant.  Whenever a sale is lawfully  made, or directed to be made by the commissioner of general services, or  has been made by his predecessor, the board of commissioners of the land  office, including a sale of land under water, if, at  the  time  of  the  making  of  the  grant,  the  necessary  jurisdictional facts existed to  authorize the grant, and by reason of accidental  omission  or  manifest  error,  the  patent  is  not  acutally issued, or has been issued to the  applicant deficient or manifestly erroneous in description or otherwise,  the commissioner may, in his discretion, and on such terms  as  seem  to  him proper, cause to be issued to such applicant, or to persons deriving  claim  or  title  from  him  subsequently  to the making of the grant, a  release or confirmatory grant of such lands or any parts thereof,  which  release  or  confirmatory  grant shall vest in the grantee therein named  such right and estate, to the extent of the right or title of the  state  in such lands, or parts thereof, as is therein named.