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Convictism :: Convictism (n.) The policy or practice of transporting convicts to penal settlements.

Reckoning :: Reckoning (n.) Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, etc..

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) 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..

Intrusion :: Intrusion (n.) The settlement of a minister over 3 congregation without their consent.

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) That which settles, or is settled, established, or fixed..

Inhabitant :: Inhabitant (n.) One who has a legal settlement in a town, city, or parish; a permanent resident..

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) 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..

Unsettlement :: Unsettlement (n.) The act of unsettling, or state of being unsettled; disturbance..

Moot :: Moot (n.) A meeting for discussion and deliberation; esp., a meeting of the people of a village or district, in Anglo-Saxon times, for the discussion and settlement of matters of common interest; -- usually in composition; as, folk-moot..

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) 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..

Compromise :: Compromise (n.) A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both sides; a reciprocal abatement of extreme demands or rights, resulting in an agreement..

Equity :: Equity (n.) An equitable claim; an equity of redemption; as, an equity to a settlement, or wife's equity, etc..

Fine :: Fine (n.) A sum of money paid as the settlement of a claim, or by way of terminating a matter in dispute; especially, a payment of money imposed upon a party as a punishment for an offense; a mulct..

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) 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..

Adjustment :: Adjustment (n.) Settlement of claims; an equitable arrangement of conflicting claims, as in set-off, contribution, exoneration, subrogation, and marshaling..

Advancement :: Advancement (v. t.) Settlement on a wife, or jointure..

Penal :: Penal (a.) Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as, a penal colony or settlement..

Composition :: Composition (n.) Mutual agreement to terms or conditions for the settlement of a difference or controversy; also, the terms or conditions of settlement; agreement..

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) Matter that subsides; settlings; sediment; lees; dregs.

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