land patent
(US, Canada) An exclusive grant of land made by a sovereign entity with respect to a particular tract of land.
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(US, Canada) An exclusive grant of land made by a sovereign entity with respect to a particular tract of land.
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(US) A grant of land by the US government to encourage the development of western states, especially land transportation and practical higher education.
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(legal, UK, obsolete) Land that has been granted temporarily, without any loss of ownership.
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(US, historical) Land ownership by patroons.
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(UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) In Britain and some Commonwealth countries, land that is owned by the state, nominally titled to the reigning King or Queen of England, and whose use and disposition is controlled by a government within that Commonwealth country or by an official representative of the monarch.
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(North America, now, historical) A legal grant to own unsettled land in colonial America, or the land so claimed.