单词 | homestead policy |
释义 | > as lemmashomestead policy C1. General attributive (chiefly in sense 2b), as homestead block, homestead grant, homestead law, homestead policy, etc. ΚΠ 1704 in Early Rec. Town of Providence (Rhode Island) (1894) VII. 210 I give..my homested place to him. 1711 in Early Rec. Town of Providence (Rhode Island) (1894) VII. 57 That part of my homestead ffarme on ther west side of the..river. 1749 in H. H. Metcalf & O. G. Hammond Probate Rec. New Hampsh. (1915) III. 741 I give to my son..all my Homestead Land. 1845 R. W. Hamilton Inst. Pop. Educ. viii. 185 The scattered population, in which homestead virtues were once supposed to find their favourite abode. 1866 Rep. Indian Affairs 215 Freedmen..allowed to enter three hundred and twenty acres of the same under the homestead law. 1884 M. G. Mulhall Dict. Statist. 231 Homestead Grants. In 1862 the United States law was passed to encourage settlers from Europe, whereby lots of ¼ square miles or 160 acres are given to immigrants, on condition of 5 years' occupation. 1886 Times 9 Oct. 10/1 The Canadian homestead policy is a more favourable one than that of the United States. 1938 Minnesota: State Guide (Federal Writers' Project) 71 Tenant farming began..when owners found themselves unable or unwilling to cultivate their homestead lands. 1948 H. Scotter Run Estate & Farm 65 Edward Menlove died in 1903. His homestead block of 1,241 acres was then entered in the roll under the name of his son-in-law. 1991 Jrnl. Refugee Stud. 4 259 At the onset of the dry season, women's farm activities increase on the homestead plot. < as lemmas |
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