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  2. Landed property - Wikipedia

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    Owners often commission an estate map to help manage their estate as well as serving as a status symbol. [6] Landed property was a key element of feudalism, and freed the owner for other tasks, such as government administration, military service, the practice of law, or religious practices.

  3. Homestead Acts - Wikipedia

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    After the creation of the Oregon territory in 1848, the US government had passed the most generous land distribution bill in US history. The Oregon Land Donation Act of 1850 had many negative effects on Indigenous people as well as Black people in the Pacific Northwest. Not only did the act use the land taken away from the Indigenous people in ...

  4. Estate (land) - Wikipedia

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    Wentworth Woodhouse is a large rural estate, extending to 15,000 acres including the country house. The "estate" formed an economic system where the profits from its produce and rents (of housing or agricultural land) sustained the main household, formerly known as the manor house.

  5. American gentry - Wikipedia

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    The American gentry were rich landowning members of the American upper class in the colonial Southern United States. Mount Vernon, Virginia, was the plantation home of George Washington. George Washington. The Colonial American use of gentry was not common. Historians use it to refer to rich landowners in the South before 1776.

  6. Land tenure - Wikipedia

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    Over history, many different forms of land tenure, i.e., ways of holding land, have been established. A landowner is the holder of the estate in land with the most extensive and exclusive rights of ownership over the territory, simply put, the owner of land.

  7. Latifundium - Wikipedia

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    A latifundium (Latin: latus, "spacious", and fundus, "farm", "estate") [1] was originally the term used by ancient Romans for great landed estates specialising in agriculture destined for sale: grain, olive oil, or wine.

  8. Estate - Wikipedia

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    Estate in land; Estate (land), the grounds and tenancies (such as farms, housing, woodland, parkland) associated with a very large property Fortified estate, a housing estate surrounded by a wall with gate entrance/checkpoint. Housing estate, a group of houses built as a single development.

  9. Estate in land - Wikipedia

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    An estate in land is, in the law of England and Wales, an interest in real property that is or may become possessory. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is a type of personal property and encompasses land ownership, rental and other arrangements that give people the right to use land.