In Mexican law. Undertakers or promoters of extensive enterprises,aided by concessions or monopolistic grants from government; particularly, personsreceiving extensive land grants in consideration of their bringing emigrants into thecountry and settling them on the lands, with a view of increasing the population anddeveloping the resources of the country. U. S. v. Maxwell Land-Grant Co., 121 U. S.325, 7 Sup. Ct. 1015, 30 L. Ed. 949.
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