单词 | trust land |
释义 | > as lemmastrust land trust land n. (an area of) land held in trust and administered by the state; spec. (a) U.S. such land held in trust for American Indians and administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs; (b) South African (now historical) land purchased by the South African Native Trust as black settlement areas.The South African Native Trust (established under the Native Trust and Land Act of 1936) made extensive additions to the area already reserved for African habitation in order to secure more land for rural black people. ΚΠ 1855 B. F. Robinson Let. 21 Sept. in Message President U.S. to Congr. I. 412 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (34th Congr., 1st Sess.: Senate Executive Doc. 1: Pt. 1) The irruption of intruders upon their trust land; their bloody dissensions;..must necessarily to these unsophisticated people have presented our system of government in an unfavorable light. 1882 Rep. Natal Native Comm. 1881–2 35 They pay no rent for the use and occupation of either Location and other Trust Lands. 1892 Report No. 880 3 in Rep. Comm. House of Representatives 52nd Congr., 1st Sess. III. The United States as trustee shall pay all of the expenses of selling said trust lands out of the moneys derived from the sale thereof and that only the net proceeds shall be paid over to said Indians. 1962 Ebony Feb. 21/2 Africans, who form three quarters of the population [of S. Africa], were allocated..only 18 per cent of the land—some of it poor land. Of this land, 99 per cent is trust land... In trust land, Africans are virtually state tenants. 1993 L. Parker & B. Langley in D. M. Fetterman Speaking Lang. of Power (2014) v. 70 The tribal reservation [of the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana] is small, with trust land of under 200 acres, though tribal members own some 1400 acres adjacent to the reservation. 2001 A. J. Christopher Atlas of Changing S. Afr. (ed. 2) 33 [In 1960] as a result of migration to the towns, only a third of the entire African population continued to live in the reserves and Trust Lands. < as lemmas |
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