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  2. Settlor - Wikipedia

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    In trust law, a settlor is a person who settles (i.e. gives into trust) their property for the benefit of the beneficiary.In some legal systems, a settlor is also referred to as a trustor, or occasionally, a grantor or donor.

  3. United States trust law - Wikipedia

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    [43] Among the factors a trustee may consider in formulating the investment strategy and the asset portfolio are (1) general economic conditions; (2) the possible effect of inflation or deflation; (3) the expected tax consequences of investment decisions or strategies;(4) the role that each investment or course of action plays within the ...

  4. Trust (law) - Wikipedia

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    A constructive trust [13] is a trust implied by law to work out justice between the parties, regardless of their intentions. Common ways in which a trust is created include: a written trust instrument created by the settlor and signed by both the settlor and the trustees (often referred to as an inter vivos or living trust);

  5. Colonial Origins of Comparative Development - Wikipedia

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    A replication of the study was published in the same journal eleven years later by David Y. Albouy in the article 'The Colonial Origins Of Comparative Development: An Investigation Of The Settler Mortality Data' who argued that the mortality rates for 28 countries used in the sample by the authors are from within the country themselves; yet, there are also another 36 countries within the same ...

  6. Settler - Wikipedia

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    A depiction of the first medieval settlers arriving in Iceland, 1850. A settler is a person who establishes or joins a permanent presence that is separate to existing communities. The entity that a settler establishes is a settlement. A settler is called a pioneer if they are among the first settling at a place that is new to the settler ...

  7. Settlement hierarchy - Wikipedia

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    Using the title of a settlement can be misleading in the absence of any widely accepted definition. For example, city status in the United Kingdom historically arose from its place in the ecclesiastic hierarchy.

  8. Settler colonialism - Wikipedia

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    [18] Nevertheless, the difference is often elided by settlers who minimize the voluntariness of their departure, claiming that settlers are mere migrants, and some pro-indigenous positions which militantly simplify, claiming that all migrants are settlers. [19] The settler state is a state established through settler colonialism, by and for ...

  9. Analysis of European colonialism and colonization - Wikipedia

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    Settler colonialism is a form of colonization where foreign citizens move into a region and create permanent or temporary settlements called colonies. The creation of settler colonies often resulted in the forced migration of indigenous peoples to less desirable territories. This practice is exemplified in the colonies established in what ...