Definition of Headright. Meaning of Headright. Synonyms of Headright

- Osage headrights is a specific and distinct topic. This article is about the general topic of headrights. A headright refers to a legal grant of land...
- An Osage headright is a type of headright in the United States. There are 2,229 Osage headrights, one for each member of the Osage Nation enrolled in...
- an Osage headright for $20,050. He later acquired a further another one-fourth of a headright in 1928 for $11,250. He purchased the headright from O.V...
- became wealthy through returns from leasing fees generated by their Osage headrights. However, during the 1920s and what was known as the Reign of Terror,...
- rights to its reservation. Each tribal member had what were known as headrights to the mineral rights on communal land. When valuable oil was found on...
- both English and Osage. By the 1900s, Mollie was wealthy from her Osage headright, but deemed incompetent due to federal laws regulating Native Americans...
- Mollie Kyle's family in a criminal conspiracy to gain control of their headrights. He was convicted in federal court for ordering the murder of Henry Roan...
- tobacco, however, fueled the need for more workers. Starting in 1618, the headright system tried to solve this by granting colonists farmland for their help...
- Kile). Burkhart later plotted to kill her to inherit the Kyle family's headrights and oil money, which was worth $7 million at the time ($166 million in...
- cost of transporting these colonists would have resulted in a 2000 acre headright at 50 acres a head. However, Garland never arrived in Jamestown because...