Plantations
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In English Law. Colonies; dependencies.
1 Bl. Comm. 107.
If this use of the term was ever current in America, it is now obsolete.
See 7 Conn. 201.
In England, this word, as it is used in only to the colonies in the West Indies and America.
1 Marsh. Ins. bk. 1, c. 8, § 2, p. 64.
The title of the state of Rhode Island, at the time of the Articles of Confederation, was "Rhode Island and Providence Plantations." In American Law. A large estate, cultivated chiefly by negroes, who live in a distinct community on the estate, under the control of the proprietor.
79 Ga. 721.
Apparently the term is applied in Maine to a minor civil subdivision.
Webster.