Concept

Territory

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area of land under a certain jurisdiction

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These three official publications record quite fully the work of the first Nebraska Legislature, which consisted of a council of 13 and a house of 26 members. From later in the same year the Library owns still another Sherman & Strickland imprint: _Annual Message of Mark W. Izard, Governor of the Territory of Nebraska, Addressed to the Legislative Assembly, December 18, 1855_. The Governor delivered this address at…
Roger J. Trienens, Pioneer Imprints from Fifty States
The chapter “DIVISION OF WISCONSIN TERRITORY” is titled for Territory; names Territory several times.
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The population was very small in numbers. It was collected only on the territory of the tribe. Next to this territory was the hunting ground surrounding it in a wide circle. A neutral forest formed the line of demarcation from other tribes. The division of labor was quite primitive. The work was simply divided between the two sexes.
Friedrich Engels, The origin of the family, private property, and the state
Names Territory twice.
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A plant fit for some territory adjacent to its own, fails to overrun it because the territory is pre-occupied by some plant which is its superior, either in fertility or power of resisting destructive agencies; or else fails because there lives in the territory some mammal which browses on its foliage or bird which devours nearly all its seeds. Similarly, an area in which animals of a particular species might…
Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Biology, Volume 1
States what Territory is; names Territory several times.
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