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A person who owns land.

It was named by its largest landowner Col.

It is not enough that it should be pumped on to the land at the expense of the landowner.

The duke of Devonshire is the principal landowner.

Woburn Abbey, belonging to the Russells since 1547, is the seat of the duke of Bedford, the greatest landowner in the county.

The landowner of the time may have moved them away to make a park or to enclose farmland.

The author, writing from the landowner's point of view, ascribes the rise in rents and the rise in the price of corn' to the " emulation " of tenants in competing for holdings, a practice implying that the agriculture of the period was prosperous.

Owners of the land in which a mine is located have a prior right to work such mine under imperial firman, on the obtention of which a duty of £T4 is payable; if they do not work it the concession may be granted to others, on payment of a certain compensation to the landowner.

Carlow, Ireland, on the 2nd of August 1820, his father being the son of a small landowner in poor circumstances, but a man of more than ordinary ability.

Except, however, where made under parliamentary authority, no composition for tithes, although made between the landowner and the parson or vicar with the consent of the patron and ordinary, bound a succeeding incumbent, the statute 13 Eliz.

The act of 1891, has, however, altered this method of recovering tithes, and substituted another intended to shift the burden of responsibility from the occupier to the landowner, by making the latter directly and solely responsible, but giving the remedy against the land.

In some districts the wholly free small landowner had already disappeared, though in the regions which had formed the Danelagh he was still to be found in large numbers.

The duties which under the old system were national obligations resting on the individual as a citizen, he made into duties depending on the relation between the king as supreme landowner and the subject as tenant of the land.

It would seem that the manorial grudges between landowner and peasant, which had been so fierce in the 14th century, had died down as the lords abandoned the old system of working their demesne by villein labor.

The county voters were the freeholders; but in the towns, with some important exceptions, the electors were the richer inhabitants who formed the corporations of the boroughs, or a body of select householders more or less under the control of some neighboring landowner.

The different degrees were those social of slave, freedman, tenant-farmer and great landowner.

There are also some specimen conifers, planted in the 1800's by the estate landowner of the time.

The Bowkers had gone only yards off the public road when they encountered a barking dog, then a barking landowner.

The Prince later formed a relationship with the equally fiery Anna ' Whiplash ' Wallace, the daughter of a Scottish landowner.

The capitalist, the wage laborer, as well as the landowner, are commodity owners who are formally independent from each other.

A neighboring landowner has the right to cut back to the boundary any branches which overhang from a tree on an adjacent property.

Once contractors have been arranged the County Council will notify the landowner of the timing of remedial action.

A typical parish would benefit from generous endowments, most notably from its wealthiest local landowner, the occupant of the Manor House.

He was the leading aristocratic landowner, hated by the population of London.

In The Man from Laramie he is shot in the hand by the maniac brother of the county's big rancher and landowner.

The Swan Fountain is a surviving example of local landowner Richard Rigby's attempt to develop Mistley into a fashionable spa.

If you do so without permission from the landowner you may be committing trespass and be asked to leave.

A landowner who did not manage his own estate placed it in the hands of a steward (major), who superintended the working of the estate and collected its revenues.

Tithe rent charge may also be merged in the land tithable, with the consent of the tithe commissioners and the landowner, by the legal and equitable owners of tithes in fee simple or fee tail, or persons having power to appoint the fee simple in tithes, or owners of glebes, or owners of lands and tithes settled to the same uses.

In front of a landowner's house to the left of the road stood carriages, wagons, and crowds of orderlies and sentinels.

To the right, beyond a steep ravine, was a small village and a landowner's house with a broken roof.

The man, a soldier with a sack over his shoulder, stopped, came close up to Dolokhov's horse, touched it with his hand, and explained simply and in a friendly way that the commander and the officers were higher up the hill to the right in the courtyard of the farm, as he called the landowner's house.

Having ridden up the road, on both sides of which French talk could be heard around the campfires, Dolokhov turned into the courtyard of the landowner's house.

The shots came from the yard of the landowner's house he had visited the night before with Dolokhov.

In The Man from Laramie he is shot in the hand by the maniac brother of the county 's big rancher and landowner.

We have a sympathetic and supportive landowner and the opportunity exists to regenerate up to nine acres .

Prevention of trespass is the responsibility of the landowner, not the Council or Police Are n't all Gypsies/Travellers just roving criminals?

The Swan Fountain is a surviving example of local landowner Richard Rigby 's attempt to develop Mistley into a fashionable Spa.

It would never do to deprive a landowner of a totally unearned increment in land value !

All wreckage of military aircraft in the UK is owned or under the protection of the MOD not the landowner.

The principal landowner is Sir Musgrave Brisco, beside whom there are several resident yeomen.

Unfortunately, Matilde's status-conscious mother, Augusta, thwarts the young lovers' romance by forcing her daughter to marry wealthy landowner Manuel Fuentes Guerra (played by Fernando Colunga) in order to save the family from bankruptcy.

Ashley was himself a large landowner, and, moreover, was opposed to Ormonde, who would have benefited by the importation.

The diminution of the population by one-half led to a scarcity of labour and an increase of wages which deprived the landowner of his narrow margin of profit.

In Kerry, Ireland, he was a large landowner, and became a member of the Irish privy council (1903), and in 1906 he sat on the Royal Commission dealing with congested districts.

He reformed the coinage, developed trade and commerce and introduced numerous agricultural reforms, especially on his own estates, which he was never weary of enlarging, so that on his death he was the wealthiest landowner in Denmark.

The possession of this property brought about frequent disputes with an adjoining landowner, Thomas de Grey, and, after many actions in the courts, his friends endeavoured to obtain, by a bill forced through the houses of parliament, the privileges which the law had not assigned to him (February 1774).

The poor landowner, likely to lose all that he had from one kind of oppression or another, went to the great landowner, his neighbour, whose position gave him immunity from attack or the power to prevent official abuses, and begged to be protected.

Up to this point we have seen only the small landowner and the landless man entering into these relations.

Owing to the famine and the disturbed state of the country, which demanded his attention as a large landowner and lieutenant of King's County (from 1831), the instrument remained unused for nearly three years, but since 1848 it has been in constant use, chiefly for observations of nebulae, for which it was particularly suited on account of its immense optical power, nominally 6000.

Boris' most important domestic reform was the ukaz (1587) forbidding the peasantry to transfer themselves from one landowner to another, thus binding them to the soil.