allotment
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The UK's 330,000 allotments, are small, rented plots of land where residents can grow their own fruit and vegetables, and are protected from development or sale under the Allotment Act 1925, except with ministerial sign-off.
From BBC • Aug. 5, 2025
Then, in 1887, it passed the General Allotment Act, also known as the Dawes Act.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 20, 2023
Allotment gutted collective tribal authority, reducing Native-held land to monogamous marriages and making women, for the first time, economically dependent upon their husbands.
From Slate • Oct. 25, 2021
The formal ones come from the tenancy agreement all plot holders must sign, which harks back to the Allotment Act 1908: if you break those, you risk forfeiting your plot.
From The Guardian • Apr. 13, 2019
After the terms of the Allotment Act were agreed upon, in 1906, Palmer boasted to Congress, “I wrote that Osage agreement out in longhand.”
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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The Dawes Act
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