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What is the definition of a Homestead?

Updated: 9/25/2023
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Apart from its specific meaning in specific pieces of legislation (and it is a technical term in a number of different legal jurisdictions), it has a general meaning of a piece of land on which your home is built, especially one which has never had a house on it before.

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