homestead act
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- 网络宅地法；宅地法案；公地放领法案
n. | 1. an act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1862, promising ownership of 160 acres of public land to a citizen who lived on and cultivated it for five years 2. the Dominion Lands Act, passed by the Canadian Parliament in 1872, and modeled after the U.S. Homestead Act of 1862 |