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.