DCHP-2

Homestead Act DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 1 — Obs.

  See Homestead Law (def. 1).

  See also: Homestead Law (def. 1)  

• 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)