headright
nounUK /ˈhɛdɹʌɪt/
Etymology From head + right.
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Canada, US, Historical A legal grant to own unsettled land in colonial America, or the land so claimed.
- By 1846 we had moved past the line of settlement, to my father's headright on the Pedernales.2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 4: