landownership

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Wealth derived from possession of land was valued more highly than that coming from landownership was the central factor in determining the status and prestige of most families.

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  1. The state of being an owner of land; proprietorship of land. But throughout France diversities of climate, landownership, and land tenure have left their mark. Edinburgh Rev., CLXVI. 280.

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  • Again and again Wallace drew attention to the fundamental duties of landownership, maintaining that the public, as a whole, had become so blinded by custom that no effectual social reform would ever be established unless some strenuous and unremitting effort was made to recover the land by law from those who had made the land laws and who had niched the common heritage of humanity for their own private aggrandisement. —  Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences Vol 2
  • "Unfortunately, with interspersed landownership, what you do on one section doesn't necessarily follow through on another." —  chron.com Chronicle
  • At the same time, the retention of some community control over landownership helps to prevent the emergence of landlessness (World Bank 1992: 144). —  P2P Foundation
  • However, the land belonging to the middle or rich peasants (who may have hired their land out to others due to various reasons) will not be confiscated, but a ceiling to landownership, tenancy right and the rate of rent will be fixed and implemented. —  United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal
  • It recognised the communal nature of landownership in traditional Aboriginal law and culture through a form of freehold title.
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