actual settlement
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United States Supreme Court
actual settlement, intended by the 9th sections, consists in clearing, fencing, and cultivating, two acres of ground at least, on each one hundred acres, erecting a house thereon, fit for the habitation of man, and a residence continued for five years next following his first settling, if he shall so long live.
Defined by the Supreme Court in - Balfour's Lessee v. Meade, 4 U.S. 363.
See also 4 U.S. 392.