Hoping to profit from this, he went about encouraging settlement at the site in an attempt to turn Cassville into a metropolis.

The Offer of Judgment rule is a tort reform law aimed at controlling unnecessary litigation and at encouraging settlement.

The colony was immediately leased to the HBC for a ten-year period, and Douglas was charged with encouraging British settlement.

In 1821, the government of Mexico was established, and the new government retained the Spanish policy of encouraging settlement by making land grants.

This term was marked principally with involvement in encouraging settlement and socio-economic development, with an aim towards transforming the territory into a state.

In the hope of encouraging settlement the company, in 1629, started to offer vast land grants and the feudal title of patroon.

These developments affected both the city and the region, stimulating the former's growth and encouraging settlement in the latter, then sparsely populated.

Given SP's history of encouraging settlement and development along its lines, land prices were expected to appreciate considerably.

The reports' usefulness in encouraging settlements is one reason judges order them, she said.

Voluntary migration and convict labor only provided so many people, and since the journey across the Atlantic was dangerous, other means of encouraging settlement were necessary.