Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being an owner of land; proprietorship of land.
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Examples
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Strictly speaking landownership is held by the government.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » When Conservatives Turn Against Private Property and Private Contracts 2010
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While the separation of homeownership from landownership is part of what makes the mobile home affordable, it is also a disadvantage.
Living Smaller 1991
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While the separation of homeownership from landownership is part of what makes the mobile home affordable, it is also a disadvantage.
Living Smaller 1991
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It is regrettable that a basic right such as landownership is being politicized, in view of the fact that all racially based land measures have already been scrapped.
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"It is regrettable that a basic right such as landownership is being politicized, in view of the fact that all racially based land measures have already been scrapped."
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It was regrettable that a basic right such as landownership was being politicized, he said.
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It fundamentally seeks to alter the principle of communal landownership which is at the heart of the land rights regime.
unknown title 2009
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Parliamentary (democratic or republican) government came about as a derivative of Monarchism – in other words a transition from private landownership to public landownership.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » We Have Adopted a Socialist Definition of Property in Arizona 2010
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Increasing evidence points to a strong association between women's landownership and a myriad of desired gains - increased productivity, increased nutrition and schooling for children, and reduced domestic violence.
Tim Hanstad: Bridging the Two Indias Tim Hanstad 2011
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Increasing evidence points to a strong association between women's landownership and a myriad of desired gains - increased productivity, increased nutrition and schooling for children, and reduced domestic violence.
Tim Hanstad: Bridging the Two Indias Tim Hanstad 2011
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