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noun

landholding n.

Ownership of land; the state or fact of owning land.

A holding in the form of land; the land owned by a person.

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Etymology of 'Landholding'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Landholding" Quotes from Famous Books

... areas in which the majority of the landowners are white, and to buy up tracts of land elsewhere from white landowners, in order to settle Natives upon them. In this way the black and the white races, so far as landholding is concerned, will be segregated into separate areas, with a reduction of possible cause of friction, and in some respects this is an excellent policy. But the trouble is that General Botha has passed ...

— Native Life in South Africa, Before and Since • Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje

... obtaining his land went through a ceremony known as "homage," by which he promised faithfulness and service to his lord, vowing on his knees to be his man. The lord in return promised faithfulness, protection, and justice to his tenant. It was this combination of landholding, political rights, and sworn personal fidelity that made up feudalism. It existed in this sense in England from the later Saxon period till late in the Middle Ages, and even in some of its characteristics to quite modern ...

— An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England • Edward Potts Cheyney

Words linked to "Landholding" : holding, ownership