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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...
- up homestead in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Homestead principle Homesteading List of homesteads in Western Australia List of historic homesteads in...
- ISBN 978-0-86571-702-2. Borsodi, Ralph (January 1934). "Subsistence Homesteads, President Roosevelt's New Land and Po****tion Policy". Survey Graphic...
- Homesteads is a community located in ****berland County, Tennessee, United States. Established by the New Deal-era Division of Subsistence Homesteads in...
- 6 million homesteaders; most of the homesteads were west of the Mississippi River. An extension of the homestead principle in law, the Homestead Acts were...
- The Subsistence Homesteads Division (or Division of Subsistence Homesteads, SHD or DSH) of the United States Department of the Interior was a New Deal...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- The Trujillo Homesteads are a historic ranch site near Mosca, Alamosa County, Colorado, not far from the Great Sand Dunes National Park. The area was first...