Settlement
Definition of Settlement
Set´tle`ment | n. | 1. | The act of setting, or the state of being settled. | | 2. | Establishment in life, in business, condition, etc.; ordination or installation as pastor. | | 2. | That which settles, or is settled, established, or fixed. | | 3. | The act of peopling, or state of being peopled; act of planting, as a colony; colonization; occupation by settlers; as, the settlement of a new country. | | 3. | Matter that subsides; settlings; sediment; lees; dregs. | | 3. | (Arch.) The gradual sinking of a building, whether by the yielding of the ground under the foundation, or by the compression of the joints or the material. | | 4. | The act or process of adjusting or determining; composure of doubts or differences; pacification; liquidation of accounts; arrangement; adjustment; as, settlement of a controversy, of accounts, etc. | | 4. | A colony newly established; a place or region newly settled; as, settlement in the West. | | 4. | (Law) A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of residence; legal residence or establishment of a person in a particular parish or town, which entitles him to maintenance if a pauper, and subjects the parish or town to his support. | | 5. | Bestowal, or giving possession, under legal sanction; the act of giving or conferring anything in a formal and permanent manner. | | 5. | That which is bestowed formally and permanently; the sum secured to a person; especially, a jointure made to a woman at her marriage; also, in the United States, a sum of money or other property formerly granted to a pastor in additional to his salary. | | 6. | (Law) A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it. |
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