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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
the right or title to a piece of land received as a grant or as a homestead (def. 2a).
Quotations
1765
For the Great Seal to every Patent for vacant and unappropriated Land, not exceeding One Hundred Acres, Twelve Shillings. The Governor's Fees.
1883
I Know men in Price Albert who've grown quite gray, On their farms--but their patents are coming some day, When they've gone where there ain't any farming.
1912
If the homesteader has arrears of taxes against him he cannot get his patent, even though he has fulfilled the other conditions.
1966
. . . the Company had been unable to conform to the conditions as set out in the Order-in-Council dated March 2, 1885, and thus had not been able to acquire the patents for the land.
2n.
land whose title was conferred by grant.
See: patented land
Quotations
1798
I have seized and taken in execution . . . A Lot of land, consisting of two hundred superficial acres, being Lot No. 10, in the first concession of the Seigniory of Saint Armand, commonly called Dunn's Patent.