The Closer Settlement Acts (NSW) were introduced by the
New South Wales
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parliament between 1901 and 1909 to reform land holdings and in particular to break the
squatters' domination of
land tenure
In common law systems, land tenure, from the French verb "tenir" means "to hold", is the legal regime in which land owned by an individual is possessed by someone else who is said to "hold" the land, based on an agreement between both individual ...
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The Acts included the Closer Settlement Acts of 1901 and 1904, and the Closer Settlement (Amendment) Acts of 1906 and 1907
See also
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Nineteen Counties
The Nineteen Counties were the limits of location in the colony of New South Wales, Australia. Settlers were permitted to take up land only within the counties due to the dangers in the wilderness.
They were defined by the Governor of New Sout ...
References
*Australian Bureau of Statistics. 1910
Early History of Land Tenure
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