Settlement may refer to:
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Human settlement
In geography, statistics and archaeology, a settlement, locality or populated place is a community in which people live. The complexity of a settlement can range from a minuscule number of dwellings grouped together to the largest of ci ...
, a community where people live
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Settlement (structural), the distortion or disruption of parts of a building
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Closing (real estate)
The closing (also called the completion or settlement) is the final step in executing a real estate transaction. It is the last step in purchasing and financing a property. On the closing day, ownership of the property is transferred from the sel ...
, the final step in executing a real estate transaction
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Settlement (finance), where securities are delivered against payment of money
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Settlement (litigation)
In law, a settlement is a resolution between disputing parties about a legal case, reached either before or after court action begins. A collective settlement is a settlement of multiple similar legal cases. The term also has other meanings in t ...
, a resolution between disputing parties about a legal case
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Settlement (trust), a deed whereby property is given by a settlor into trust
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Israeli settlement
Israeli settlements, or Israeli colonies, are civilian communities inhabited by Israeli citizens, overwhelmingly of Jewish ethnicity, built on lands occupied by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. The international community considers Israeli se ...
, Jewish civilian communities built on land occupied by Israel
See also
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Act of Settlement (disambiguation), various legislation
*Settlement Act, or
Poor Relief Act 1662
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Collective settlement
An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork from the start. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, religious, ...
, another name for an intentional community
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Collective settlement (litigation)
In law, a settlement is a resolution between disputing parties about a legal case, reached either before or after court action begins. A collective settlement is a settlement of multiple similar legal cases. The term also has other meanings in t ...
, a legal term
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Settler colonialism, replacing the original population with a new society of settlers
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Settlement geography
Settlement geography is a branch of human geography that investigates the earth's surface's part settled by humans. According to the United Nations' Vancouver Declaration on Human Settlements (1976), "human settlements means the totality of the h ...
, investigating the part of the earth's surface settled by humans
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Settlement movement
The settlement movement was a reformist social movement that began in the 1880s and peaked around the 1920s in United Kingdom and the United States. Its goal was to bring the rich and the poor of society together in both physical proximity and s ...
, a Victorian era reformist social movement
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Settlement school
Settlement schools are social reform institutions established in rural Appalachia in the early 20th century with the purpose of educating mountain children and improving their isolated rural communities.
Settlement schools have played an importan ...
, social reform institutions established in rural Appalachia in the early 20th century
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Sedentism
In cultural anthropology, sedentism (sometimes called sedentariness; compare sedentarism) is the practice of living in one place for a long time. , the large majority of people belong to sedentary cultures. In Sociocultural evolution, evolutio ...
, the practice of living in one place for a long time
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Squatting
Squatting is the action of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied area of land or a building, usually residential, that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have lawful permission to use. The United Nations estimated in 2003 that there ...
, occupying an abandoned building
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Structured settlement
A structured settlement is a negotiated financial or insurance arrangement through which a claimant agrees to resolve a personal injury tort claim by receiving part or all of a Settlement (litigation), settlement in the form of periodic payments o ...
, a negotiated financial or insurance arrangement
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Consolidation (soil), a process by which soils decrease in volume
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