Settlement

Settlement may refer to:

• Consolidation (soil), a process by which soils decrease in volume
• Human settlement, a community where people live
  • Plantation (settlement or colony), an early method of colonization
  • Urban settlement (disambiguation)
  • Rural settlement
  • Urban-type settlement
• Settlement (structural), the gradual distortions created in a structure

Human settlement expansion, squatting and colonization

• Early human migration
  • Settlement of the Americas
• Squatting, communities established without legal right on unoccupied or abandoned property
• Settler colonialism
  • European colonization of the Americas
  • French settlement of Algeria
  • Israeli settlement, communities inhabited by Jews in Judea and Samaria
  • Prussian Settlement Commission aimed at Germanization of Polish-inhabited areas from 1886 to 1924
  • Turkish settlers in Northern Cyprus, as a result of the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus
  • Muslim conquest of the Levant
  • Muslim conquests on the Indian subcontinent
  • Muslim conquest of the Maghreb

Financial terms

• 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

Legal terms

• Settlement (litigation), an agreement or resolution of a dispute
• Settlement under the Poor Law, a person's place of origin or later established residence, being the Parish responsible for the person if destitute
• Settlement (trust), an instrument creating a trust
• Structured settlement, a financial or insurance agreement involving a structure of periodic payments to pay a debt such as tax liability

See also

• Act of Settlement (disambiguation), various legislation
• Settlement movement, started in Victorian England, concerned with urban poverty
  • Settlement school, in the US, inspired by the above