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Colony

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

A union of citizens or subjects who have left their country to people another, and remain subject to ihe mothercountry.

3 Wash. C. C. (U. S.) 287.

The country occupied by the colonists. A colony differs from a possession or a dependency.