PLANTATIONS

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  PLANTATIONS. Colonies, (q.v.) dependencies. (q.v.) 1 Bl. Com. 107. In 
  England, this word, as it is used in St. 12, II. c. 18, is never applied to, 
  any of the British dominions in Europe, but only to the colonies in the West 
  Indies and America. 1 Marsh. Ins, B. 1, c. 3, Sec. 2, page 64. 
       2. By plantation is also meant a farm.