allottee
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7.2
- noun
- /əˈlɑːtiː/
- Formal
:
beneficiario
- After years of waiting, the allottees finally received their shares of the property.
Well, the tribe or the people, the individual allottees, they need to have their rights vindicated and they'll use the courts or whatever sources they have.
- Well, the tribe or the people, the individual allottees, they need to have their rights vindicated and they'll use the courts or whatever sources they have.
Examples
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Even land that remained in trust was more often leased to non-Indians than used by the allottees (Wilkinson, 20).
Academic text (1997) -
"Our struggle here in Oklahoma... as allottees and landowners," another participant said, "is that we don't get a lot of legal recognition as individual landowners... versus the tribe or reservation lands."
Academic text (2018) -
The transfer of these materials could not take place until the Tribe had obtained releases from the allottees.
Academic text (1990) -
The act also made all "competent" allottees subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and the state in which the individual resided.
Academic text (2009) -
The United States would hold the title to the land in trust for twenty-five years as a means of protection for the allottee while he or she learned to use the land to its fullest potential.
Academic text (2009) -
Under the original provisions of the act, still in effect in 1904, allottees were not to be given legal title to their land until the expiration of the trust period; however, any Indian who accepted his or her allotment of land, even without the legal title to it, automatically became a U.S. citizen.
Academic text (2002) -
In 1894, the Stearns Lumber Company contracted with allottees on the Bad River Reservation for timber and became the most important source of employment for Indians and non-Indians on the reservation.
Academic text (2009) -
The allottees were relieved to receive their official documents for the land they had been assigned.
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The meeting was held to discuss the rights of the allottees and their responsibilities regarding the land.
Synonyms
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6.2
A person or group that officially receives something such as money, rights, property
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6.8
A person who is given rights, property, or responsibilities by someone else
A person who receives ownership of property through a legal transfer
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Allottee comes from the verb allot, which means 'to give a share or part', plus the ending -ee, meaning 'person who receives', as in employee or payee. So an allottee is the person who is given land, shares, or other rights.