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Compound settlement. Two or more dispositions including Acts of Parliament affecting the same piece of land by way of settlement either comprehensively or derivatively, that is, in particular without affecting the comprehensive settlement. By the proviso to s. 1 of the Settled Land Act, 1925, land which is the subject of a compound settlement is governed for the purposes of the Act by its provisions relating to a settlement unless the context otherwise requires.