Note 23 — PART ONE
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Colonia. A section of land divided into individual holdings which are sold subject to certain provisions. Related Words: Tierra fiscal, pública, lands, government lands; pueblo, principal town of a colonia; egido, the land surrounding a pueblo in a colonia, to be used as the town grows; título definitivo, deed giving the settler legal title to the land he occupies; poblador, arrendador, ocupante, tenant.