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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 (building), a farmhouse and its adjacent outbuildings; by extension...
- of the United States, were 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...
- Homesteads is a community located in ****berland County, Tennessee, United States. Established by the New Deal-era Division of Subsistence Homesteads in...
- Homestead is a 2024 American post-apocalyptic drama film directed by Ben Smallbone and written by Phillip Abraham, Leah Bateman and Jason Ross. Its stars...
- ISBN 978-0-86571-702-2. Borsodi, Ralph (January 1934). "Subsistence Homesteads, President Roosevelt's New Land and Po****tion Policy". Survey Graphic...
- The Subsistence Homesteads Division (or Division of Subsistence Homesteads, SHD or DSH) of the United States Department of the Interior was a New Deal...
- The Homesteads is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Johnson County, Texas, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior...
- This is a list of historic houses or notable homesteads located in Australia. The list has been sourced from a variety of national, state and local historical...
- 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...