DCHP-3

patentee

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a person receiving title to land through a patent (def. 1).

See: patent(def. 1)

Quotations

1763
For every Fifty Acres of Land account plantable, each Patentee shall be obliged, within three years after the Date of his Patent, to clear and work three Acres at the least.
1913
His name, apparently, first appears in Canadian records as the original patentee of lot 120, in the 5th concession of the Township of Walsingham.