British Settlement
Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
British settlement, denotes a British possession, not acquired by conquest or cession, which is not for the time being within the jurisdiction of the legislature of any British possession other than a legislature constituted in accordance with the British Settlement Act, 1887 and 1945, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 6, 4th Edn., Para 807, p. 355.
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