Settlement
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Settlements) Jump to: navigation, searchSettlement may refer to:
- Consolidation (soil) Consolidation is a process by which soils decrease in volume. It occurs when stress is applied to a soil that causes the soil particles to pack together more tightly, therefore reducing its bulk volume. When this occurs in a soil that is saturated with water, water will be squeezed out of the soil. The magnitude of consolidation can be predicted, settlement in soil
- Human settlement A settlement is a general term used in archaeology, geography, landscape history and other subjects for a permanent or temporary community in which people live, without being specific as to size, population or importance. A settlement can therefore range in size from a small number of dwellings grouped together to the largest of cities with, permanent community where people live
- Israeli settlement Israeli settlements are Israeli civilian communities in the Israeli-occupied territories . Such settlements currently exist in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. The latter two areas are governed under Israeli civil law but all three territories are considered to be under military occupation by the international community, communities inhabited by Israeli Jews in territory that came under Israel's control as a result of the 1967 Six-Day War
- Settlement (closing) The closing date is set during the negotiation phase, and is usually several weeks after the offer is formally accepted. On the closing date, the parties consummate the purchase contract, and ownership of the property is transferred to the buyer. In most jurisdictions ownership is officially transferred when the contract is registered at the, as in a real estate closing with transfer of title deed to the buyer
- Settlement (finance) Settlement is the process whereby securities or interests in securities are delivered, usually against payment, to fulfill contractual obligations, such as those arising under securities trades, the process of exchanging the consideration for financial instruments once a transaction has been executed
- Settlement (structural) Settlement in a structure refers to the distortion or disruption of parts of a building due to either; unequal compression of its foundations, shrinkage such as that which occurs in timber framed buildings as the frame adjusts its moisture content, or by undue loads being applied to the building after its initial construction. Settlement should, the gradual distortions created in a structure
- Legal terms
- Settlement (litigation) A settlement, as well as dealing with the dispute between the parties is a contract between those parties, and is one possible result when parties sue (or contemplate so doing) each other in civil proceedings. The plaintiff(s) and defendant(s) identified in the lawsuit can end the dispute between themselves without a trial, an agreement or resolution of a dispute
- Settlement under the Poor Law The English Poor Laws were a system of poor relief which existed in England and Wales that developed out of late medieval and Tudor laws before being codified in 1587–98. The Poor Law system was in existence until the emergence of the modern welfare state after the Second World War, a person's place of origin or later established residence, being the Parish responsible for the person if destitute
- Settlement (trust) In the context of trusts, a settlement is a deed whereby real estate, land, or other property is given by a settlor into trust so that the beneficiary only has the limited right to the property (for example during their life), but usually has no right to transfer the land to another or leave it in their own will. Instead the property devolves as, an instrument creating a trust
See also
- Act of Settlement, various legislation
- Settlement movement The settlement movement was a reformist social movement, peaking around the 1920s in England and the US, with a goal of getting the rich and poor in society to live more closely together in an interdependent community. Its main object was the establishment of "settlement houses" in poor urban areas, in which volunteer middle-class ", started in Victorian England, concerned with urban poverty
- Prussian Settlement Commission aimed at Germanization of Polish-inhabited areas from 1886 to 1924
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