Settlement
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Settlement may refer to:
- Human settlement , permanent community where people live
- Israeli settlement, communities inhabited by Israeli Jews in territory that came under Israel's control as a result of the 1967 Six-Day War
- Settlement (closing), as in a real estate closing with transfer of Deed to the buyer
- Settlement (finance), the process of exchanging the consideration for financial instruments once a transaction has been executed
- Settlement (structural), the gradual distortions created in a structure
- Consolidation (soil), settlement in soil
- Legal terms
- Settlement (litigation), an agreement or resolution of a dispute
- Settlement (trust), an instrument creating a trust
- Settlement under the Poor Law, a person's place of origin or later established residence, being the Parish responsible for the person if destitute
[edit] See also
- Act of Settlement, various legislation
- Settlement movement, started in Victorian England, concerned with urban poverty
- Category:Settlements, for articles about various types of human settlements and specific settlements
