Nevertheless, it is probable that tribal ownership was the prevailing form of land tenure so long as people remained mainly in pastoral conditions.
Before discussing the morality of the landowner's income, and of rent receiving, we may with profit glance at the history of land tenure.
To distinguish them from the original barons by land tenure, they were called "barons by writ" (S263).
Folk-land and book-land seem to cover the whole field of land tenure.
It stands outside the general system of land tenure.
We have seen that in the boroughs a group of men is formed whose principle of cohesion is not to be found in land tenure.
As we pursue our retrogressive course through the middle ages, we do not find that the law of personal condition becomes more and more distinct from the law of land tenure; on the contrary, the two become less and less separable.
It is natural that they should survive least where trade and industry are most developed, and where men are being linked by other bonds than those of land tenure.
See Cobden Club, Systems of Land Tenure in Various Countries: Morier's Essay on Germany.
We shall have hereafter to speak of the changes which overtook the English social system in the course of the sixteenth century, in so far as they were connected with changes in the methods of agriculture and of land tenure.
Roman custom, in present Bavaria as to land tenure, 313.
If land tenure was so significant in Europe, it was equally important in the development of America, where practically all the first immigrants were forced by circumstances to derive their livelihood from the soil.
At the other end of the scale were the feudal elements of land tenure found in the proprietary colonies, in the seaboard regions of the South, and to some extent in New York.
So it happened that almost every kind of experiment in land tenure, from communism to feudalism, was tried.
Finally, they were enjoined to investigate carefully all claims to titles and all alleged rights of land tenure.
M456) Such is an ideal sketch of the growth of land tenure.
The many extremely fine charters of this period are of great value for the questions concerning land tenure.
It helped to make New France stronger in arms than she could have become under any other plan of land tenure; and with states as with men self-preservation is the first law of nature.
The seigneurial system was still the basis of land tenure in France.
And the fact that they did so is of great historical significance, for the right of court-holding rather than the obligation of military service is the earmark which distinguishes feudalism from all other systems of land tenure.
Besides the fortune of war, the chiefs owed much of the enormous increase in their power to their system of land tenure.
The system of land tenure in England has been the growth of custom gradually hardening into law; in Ireland the traditional custom was suddenly abolished, and English law substituted in its place.
The difficulties which it presents have their deepest roots in an unsatisfactory system of land tenure, excessive sub-division of holdings, and antiquated methods of agricultural economy.
The seigneurial system of land tenure, as all students of history know, was feudalism in a somewhat modernized form.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "land tenure" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
