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acre right

American  

noun

U.S. History.

  1. the right of a settler to purchase land that the settler has occupied or improved.

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It was reported at the time that the price he had paid the Government was ten shillings per acre, right out.

From The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon by Gordon, J. M. (Joseph Maria)

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