DCHP-1 Online

homestead right

• the right of a citizen to file on a tract of land under the conditions of the Homestead Act (def. 2).

  See also: Homestead Act (def. 2)  

  • 1871  No other person shall be entitled to more than one homestead right.
  • 1954  With his family using their homestead rights, plus a scrip or two of a half-section each, they could gain a big farm for an expenditure of a comparatively little besides their labour.