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Settlement

Settlement may refer to:

• Human settlement, permanent community where people live
  • Israeli settlement, communities inhabited by Israeli Jews in territory that came under Israel's control as a result of the 1967 Six-Day War
• Settlement (closing), as in a real estate closing with transfer of title 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

Legal terms

• 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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