DCHP-1 Online
Homestead Act 
1 Obs. See Homestead Law (def. 1).
See also: Homestead Law (def. 1)
- 1870 Why he did so is not very clear, as he being an American citizen must not be entitled to the privileges of the homestead act, and it was under cover of this act that the jump was to be made.
2 an act of Parliament passed in 1872, in full called the Free Land Homestead Act, governing the conditions under which government land was to be settled, especially in the Canadian West.
See also: homestead ((n.)) (def. 2a) Homestead Law (def. 2)
- 1949 . . . The Homesteads Act was actually brought into force in 1882 [sic]. . . .
- 1964 The department of lands and forests . . . administers the Homestead Act. . . .
- 1870 Why he did so is not very clear, as he being an American citizen must not be entitled to the privileges of the homestead act, and it was under cover of this act that the jump was to be made.