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Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In Mexican law. Undertakers or promoters of extensive enterprises, aided by concessions or monopolistic grants from government; particularly, persens receiving extensive land granis in consideration of their bringing emigrants into the country and settling them on the lands, with a view of increasing the population and developing the resources of the country.

U. S. v. Maxwell Land-Grant Co., 121 U. S. 325, 7 Sup. Ch 1015, 30 L. Ed. 949.