The next step was in the direction of freeing the landholder from the duty of public service connected with the tenure of his land.
By compelling every landholder to enter the service of the state, and by establishing a uniform law of inheritance for all real estate belonging to the nobility, he merged in one patrimonies and fees.
Where the nobleman would merely distribute his estate in small lots among peasant tenants, the capitalist landholder carries on agriculture on a large scale: Dessiatines.
On the other hand, by imposing the poll tax upon peasants, and by making the landholder responsible for the exact payment of this tax, he put slaves and serfs upon a common footing, and made the latter personally dependent upon the landlord.
The House of Commons was led by John Pym, a middle class landholder with extensive commercial interests.
John Napier, a large Calvinist landholder in Scotland who had built his own castle, did mathematics in his older years.
A contemporary said "that General Washington is, perhaps, the greatest landholder in America.
The true etymology of the word iz par, or bar, a landholder or baron, and le mote, the meeting.
Thus in England and France, a great landholder possesses a hundred times the property that is necessary for the subsistence of a family; and each landlord has perhaps a hundred families dependent on him for subsistence.
By it, it was settled that every landholder in the realm, of whatever condition, was bound first of all to fight in behalf of the Crown, even if in so doing he had to fight against his own lord.
The squire was the chief landholder in a village or parish; the parson, the minister of the parish church.
Under the feudal system, every large landholder had to furnish the King a stipulated number of men, fully equipped with armor and weapons.
The peasants clamored for their right to be equal with their neighbors, and no doubt many a small landholderjoined them, who did not wish to swear fealty to his over-lord.
Defn: A native prince or king; also, a landholder or person of importance in the agricultural districts.
But how can the landholder ascertain, that "Mr. Martin thought" the office mentioned "destined for a different character?
Their produce will bear a low price, and require bad pay; the laborer will not find employment; the value of lands will fall, and the landholder become poor.
I have equal confidence that it will be as little questioned by any who know me, even should theLandholder vouchsafe to give the Public his name--a respectable name I am sure it cannot be.
Now sir, let theLandholder come forward and give his name to the public.
Had I been a greater friend to a standing army, and not quite so averse to expose your liberties to a soldiery, I do not believe the Landholder would have chose me for the object on whom to expend his artillery of falsehood.
The Landholder having in a former publication asserted "that Mr. Gerry introduced a motion, respecting the redemption of old continental money" and the public having been informed by a paragraph in the Massachusetts Centinel, No.
A wealthy landholder and merchant-prince of Ghent, James van Artevelde, made himself the spokesman of all classes of that great manufacturing city.
The King of Prussia is the largest landholder and the richest citizen of Prussia.
Thus in England and France, a great landholder possesses a hundred times the property that is necessary for the subsistence of a family; and each landlord has perhaps a hundred families dependent on him for subsistence.
Not so in some other lands, where every civil advance of the stranger is met with a taciturn reply or a miserable whine against a presupposed unjust fate which permits a landholder to expect the tenant to pay rent.
This inquest was made by the writ Quo Warranto, by which each landholder was invited to show the charter or warrant in which his claims rested.
When the church was a landholder their conduct was even more unwarrantable; every clerk installed in a new preferment was forced to pay a large sum down--which in that age was considered a clear case of simony by all conscientious men.
Finally, in order to secure the support of the smaller landholders and to prevent combinations against him among the greater ones, he required every landholder in England to take an oath of fidelity directly to him.
A single rich landholder might own hundreds and even thousands, and it was a poor man that did not have several at least.
With the invasions of the barbarians the lot of the defenseless small landholderbecame worse.
The business of thelandholder or bondsman was war, and his chief virtue courage.
Society among them was divided into two classes,--the landholder or bondsmen, and the thralls or slaves.
A term expressive of a duty paid to a landholder or superior, which occurs in old law-deeds.
The privilege conferred on a landholder of trying a thief taken within his territory.
The vargdar or landholder owned him as a hereditary slave.
The former is the hereditary servitor of the family, born in servitude, and performing agricultural work for the landholder from father to son.
Recently a large landholder in Mandla, a Jarha Lodhi, has assumed the sacred thread himself for the first time and sent round a circular to his caste-men enjoining them also to wear it.
Each family is closely connected with the house of some landholder or pattidar (sharer).
Old as the country is, each landholder bounds on the primitive forest, and fuel bears no price.
To talk quite broadly, I mean the millionaire and landholder Seraphin Gerlach, who is head and ears in love with you.
This is an unhealthy condition of things, which gives reason to fear the corruption of the whole body politic,” remarked the landholder with seriousness.
No matter, my actual friend, landholder and millionaire, must be made see with his eyes and touch with his fingers what marvels progress can effect.
The lands, thus sold for next to nothing, left of course the latelandholder still in debt.
But you are the principal landholder here, my dear, and you must learn to take an interest in parish matters for many reasons.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "landholder" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
