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Colony

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

A dependent political community, consisting of a number of citizens of the same country who have emigrated therefrom to people another, and remain subject to the mother-country.

3 Wash. C. C. 287.

A settlement in a foreign country possessed and cultivated, either wholly or partially, by immigrants and their descendants, who have a political connection with and subordination to the mother-country, whence they emigrated. In other words, it is a place peopled from some more ancient city or country.

Wharton.