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Definition of Land tenure
1. Noun. The right to hold property; part of an ancient hierarchical system of holding lands.
Generic synonyms: Legal Right
Specialized synonyms: Copyhold, Freehold, Villeinage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Land Tenure
Literary usage of Land tenure
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Student's Manual of English Constitutional History by Dudley Julius Medley (1894)
"... have for the last half century been interpreted saxon^" as indicating the
existence of two modes of land tenure among the Anglo-Saxons. ..."
2. Americans of 1776 by James Schouler (1906)
"HOUSES AND HOMES THE land tenure of these colonies, varying as it did under one
... Our land tenure on this North Atlantic slope was essentially modern, ..."
3. The History of Political Parties in the Province of New York, 1760-1776 by Carl Lotus Becker (1904)
"CHAPTER I. land tenure IN ENGLAND AT THE CLOSE OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
The land of England was held by such varied tenures in the seventeenth century ..."
4. Principles of Economics by Alfred Marshall (1890)
"land tenure. § 1. IN early times, and in some backward countries BOOK vn. even in
our own age, all rights to property depend on general CH' ..."
5. English Land and English Landlords: An Enquiry Into the Origin and by George Charles Brodrick (1881)
"Foreign Systems of land tenure. No survey of the English Land System would be
complete which should take no cognisance of the land systems inherited or ..."
6. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1915)
"Sunset 35:250-2 Ag '15 land tenure See also Feudalism; ... 19th Cent 78:1097-1113
N '15 Japan Origin of the feudal land tenure In Japan. K. Asakawa. ..."
7. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... Land-Tenure in the Christian Era.—Th.'way in which land has been held or owned
during the nineteen hundred years which have ..."
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