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Definition of Homesteads

Homestead
Homestead Home"stead, n. [AS. h[=a]mstede.] 1. The home place; a home and the inclosure or ground immediately connected with it. --Dryden. 2. The home or seat of a family; place of origin. We can trace them back to a homestead on the Rivers Volga and Ural. --W. Tooke. 3. (Law) The home and appurtenant land and buildings owned by the head of a family, and occupied by him and his family. Homestead law. (a) A law conferring special privileges or exemptions upon owners of homesteads; esp., a law exempting a homestead from attachment or sale under execution for general debts. Such laws, with limitations as to the extent or value of the property, exist in most of the States. Called also homestead exemption law. (b) Also, a designation of an Act of Congress authorizing and regulating the sale of public lands, in parcels of 160 acres each, to actual settlers. [U.S.]

Meaning of Homesteads from wikipedia

- Look up homestead in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Homestead may refer to: Homestead (buildings), a farmhouse and its adjacent outbuildings; by extension...
- of the United States, was given away free to 1.6 million homesteaders; most of the homesteads were west of the Mississippi River. These acts were the first...
- Wailua Homesteads is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kauaʻi County, Hawaiʻi, United States. The po****tion was 5,863 at the 2020 census, up from 4,567...
- ISBN 978-0-86571-702-2. Borsodi, Ralph (January 1934). "Subsistence Homesteads, President Roosevelt's New Land and Po****tion Policy". Survey Graphic...
- up homestead in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Homestead principle Homesteading List of homesteads in Western Australia List of historic homesteads in...
- north in the center of the state, the borough was established as Jersey Homesteads by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on May 29, 1937, from portions...
- Homesteads is a community located in ****berland County, Tennessee, United States. Established by the New Deal-era Division of Subsistence Homesteads in...
- limit for homesteads inside of a muni****lity (urban homestead) and 100 acres (40 hectares) for those outside of a muni****lity (rural homestead). The rural...
- The Subsistence Homesteads Division (or Division of Subsistence Homesteads, SHD or DSH) of the United States Department of the Interior was a New Deal...
- close. The Division of Subsistence Homesteads accepted the proposal in January 1934, and established ****berland Homesteads, Inc. to oversee the project. The...