Definition of settlement

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Settlement (n.) A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it..

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Adjustment :: Adjustment (n.) Settlement of claims; an equitable arrangement of conflicting claims, as in set-off, contribution, exoneration, subrogation, and marshaling..
Settlement :: Settlement (n.) A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it..
Train :: Train (v.) Regular method; process; course; order; as, things now in a train for settlement..
Settlement :: Settlement (n.) Bestowal, or giving possession, under legal sanction; the act of giving or conferring anything in a formal and permanent manner..
Settlement :: Settlement (n.) That which settles, or is settled, established, or fixed..
Botany Bay :: Botany Bay () A harbor on the east coast of Australia, and an English convict settlement there; -- so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770..
Settlement :: Settlement (n.) The act of setting, or the state of being settled..
Footing :: Footing (n.) Standing; position; established place; basis for operation; permanent settlement; foothold.
Moot :: Moot (n.) A meeting for discussion and deliberation; esp., a meeting of the people of a village or district, in Anglo-Saxon times, for the discussion and settlement of matters of common interest; -- usually in composition; as, folk-moot..
Dissettlement :: Dissettlement (n.) The act of unsettling, or the state of being unsettled..
Preestablishment :: Preestablishment (n.) Settlement beforehand.
Equity :: Equity (n.) An equitable claim; an equity of redemption; as, an equity to a settlement, or wife's equity, etc..
Satisfaction :: Satisfaction (n.) Settlement of a claim, due, or demand; payment; indemnification; adequate compensation..
Colony :: Colony (n.) The district or country colonized; a settlement.
Penal :: Penal (a.) Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as, a penal colony or settlement..
Decision :: Decision (n.) The act of deciding; act of settling or terminating, as a controversy, by giving judgment on the matter at issue; determination, as of a question or doubt; settlement; conclusion..
Plantation :: Plantation (n.) An original settlement in a new country; a colony.
Settlement :: Settlement (n.) Matter that subsides; settlings; sediment; lees; dregs.
Settlement :: Settlement (n.) The act of peopling, or state of being peopled; act of planting, as a colony; colonization; occupation by settlers; as, the settlement of a new country..
Settlement :: Settlement (n.) Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
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