It also has significance in the area of homestead law.

He added to his holdings using the California homestead laws.

They (and Americans as well) also took advantage of the homestead laws to obtain free farms.

Indeed, opposition to homestead laws was far more common in secessionist rhetoric than opposition to tariffs.

They strongly opposed the homestead laws that were proposed to give free farms in the west, fearing the small farmers would oppose plantation slavery.

That the commutation provisions of the homestead laws shall not apply to any entires made under this Act.

Mr. Simpson lives in Florida, where homestead laws protect a person's house against seizure for the payment of court judgments.

"Listen here, hombres," called the Native Son from the window, where he had been studying the well-thumbed pamphlet containing the homestead law.

"Homestead laws," I said.

The 1848 platform pledged to promote limited internal improvements, work for a homestead law, paying off the public debt, and a moderate tariffs for revenue only.

Wherever his livestock grazed, he built a shack and had one of his 100 employees become a "tenant" to support his claim under California's homestead law.

With the passage of new homestead laws in 1909 enabling homesteaders to take out larger acreages, the area saw an influx of dryland farmers.

Although she ran the telegraph office in Colorado Springs for three more years, she also spent the time required by homestead law on her Ioka land.

Homestead Law Homestead Law, a law granting free land to settlers.

Allodial titles were subject to exemptions from seizure in debt or bankruptcy under homestead laws; however, property could be seized if used in a criminal enterprise.

Apparently, Cuming hired an Irish man named Callahan to make improvements on Cuming's land in order to conform with the homestead law.

The only area within the homestead laws wherein allodial title fails to provide an extra benefit is in the realm of civil and criminal forfeiture of property.

Mr. Sullivan forfeited his Boca Raton mansion instead of trying to claim an exemption under the Florida Homestead Law.

Together with the free lands provided farmers by the Homestead Law the low-cost farm lands provided by the land grants speeded up the expansion of commercial agriculture.

Southern Democrats had continually fought (and defeated) previous homestead law proposals, as they feared free land would attract European immigrants and poor Southern whites to the west.

Rains was the author of the Homestead Law of Texas which was later used as a model for the protection of homesteads throughout the United States.

Under the new homestead law, settlers began purchasing the "even numbered" sections from the State of Texas for the benefit of the Common School Fund in 1883.

Utah's then twenty-seven counties all had a voice, and a sharp eye was peeled for potential problems such as water rights, the school system, a realistic homestead law and collateral headaches.

Immigrations were interrupted during the period of the U.S. Civil War, but were resumed thereafter when free lands also were obtainable under the Homestead Law of 1862.

Then, less than fifty years ago, Persephone, undergoing climatic chang- es, had taken over, on normal Unity homestead laws, an uninhabited pelagic planet, almost without arable land, known as Cinderella.

There, he worked for passage of the popular homestead exemption law, still in effect in Louisiana.

Different jurisdictions provide different degrees of protection under homestead exemption laws.

Homestead exemption laws typically have four primary features: