SETTLEMENT

'Settlement' may refer to:

★ A new or small community; see settler [1][2][3]

★ 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

★ A place where humans live, a human settlement [4]
As a legal term it may refer to

★ 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.

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See also

See also

★ Act of Settlement

★ Israeli settlements

★ Settlement movement (social settlements)

★ Settlement Hierarchy, for a hierarchy of human communities

★ , for articles about various types of human settlements and specific settlements