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Definition of Homesteads
1. homestead [v] - See also: homestead
Lexicographical Neighbors of Homesteads
Literary usage of Homesteads
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. New Probate Law and Practice, with Annotations and Forms: For Use in Alaska by William Smithers Church (1909)
"Homesteads. § 411. Right of survivor to homestead. § 412. ... (2) Homesteads
selected from separate property of persons selecting or joining in selection of ..."
2. Public Land Laws: Passed by Congress from March 4, 1875, to April 1, 1882 by Henry Norris Copp, United States Dept. of the Interior, United States General Land Office, United States Dept. of Justice (1883)
"When lands entered for homesteads revert to Government. 224. ... Unsold lands of
Ottawa and Chip- pewa Indians, how opened for~ homesteads. 247. ..."
3. Public Land Laws: Passed by Congress from March 4, 1875, to April 1, 1882 by Henry Norris Copp, United States Dept. of the Interior, United States General Land Office, United States Dept. of Justice (1883)
"Homesteads. Who may enter certain unappropriated lands. Mode of procedure. ...
When lands entered for homesteads revert to Government. ..."
4. A Treatise on the Public Land System of the United States: With References by George W. Spaulding (1884)
"When Lands Entered for Homesteads Revert to Government. § 136. ... Unsold Lands
of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, how Opened for Homesteads. ..."
5. Probate Law and Practice: A Treatise on Wills, Succession, Administration by Peter V. Ross (1909)
"Classes and General Incidents of Homesteads.—Tn this and the following article
... To each of these homesteads the law, for reasons not clearly apparent, ..."
6. Constitution of the State of Louisiana: Adopted in Convention, at the City by Louisiana (1879)
"Eights to homesteads or exemptions under laws or contracts, or for debts existing
at the time of the adoption of this constitution, shall not be impaired, ..."
7. Revised Laws of the State of California: In Four Codes : Political, Civil by California, Creed Haymond, John Chilton Burch, Charles Lindley (1871)
"CHAPTER I. GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO Homesteads. II. THE HOMESTEAD OF THE
HEAD OF A FAMILY. ... Who may acquire homesteads, and of what value. what ..."