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Definition of Homestead law
1. Noun. A law conferring privileges on owners of homesteads.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Homestead Law
Literary usage of Homestead law
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1915)
"... and that his acts did not constitute a settlement upon said northeast quarter
within the meaning of the homestead law; that on the 23d day of November, ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1903)
"The word 'occupied' and the idea conveyed by it were foreign to the homestead
law at date of this act, as nn essential element in the reservation of land. ..."
3. The Law of Homestead and Exemptions by John H. Smyth (1875)
""The homestead law is not limited in its operations to any class, but is universal
in its application ; and all classes of persons are entitled to its ..."
4. The Political History of the Public Lands, from 1840 to 1862: From Pre by George Malcolm Stephenson (1917)
"... CHAPTER XV THE homestead law, 1862 IT was not to be expected that a sectional
measure of the importance of homestead would be enacted into law in the ..."
5. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"Under the Texas homestead law it is pro vided that the homestead shall consist
of not more than 200 acres of land, which may be in one or more portions, ..."
6. Official Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Constitutional by Andrew Jackson Marsh (1866)
"1 do not, therefore, claim any origin- be more humane, but decidedly more in
consonance with the original object and design of a homestead law, which is to ..."
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