As applied to the business and landowning class, law was notoriously a flexible, convenient, and highly adaptable function.
Not merely over the labor of the whole working class did this gripping process extend, but it was severely felt by that large part of the landowning and trading class which was excluded from holding the same privileges.
Nationalist leaders had now the chance of leading a combination of all sane elements in the landowning and land-cultivating classes.
The Southern Unionists were the old landowning and professional class, friendly in all ways of intercourse, but politically severed and sundered from the mass of the population.
With the fall of Somerset in October 1549 the landowning classes had their revenge, and, under the guidance of Warwick, the policy of the Government swung violently in the opposite direction.
It is easy to understand that it must have been difficult to maintain customary payments and traditional methods of agriculture against the screw which the rise in prices turned on the landowning classes.
This might appear strange, since under universal suffrage the non-taxpaying and non-landowning majority would be expected to dominate.
But they're a queer people here, and when you get to the bottom of it, practically the question of landowning resolves itself into keeping on the right side of Dafydd Dafis, if you see what I mean.
Soon the Manchus were in the adjoining southern provinces, and thus they conquered the whole of the territory of the landowning gentry, who after the events of the beginning of the seventeenth century had no longer trusted the Ming rulers.
Large-scale landowning proved especially injurious in the Sung period, for two reasons.
Under the Chinese economic system, large-scale landowning always proved socially and politically injurious.
It is interesting that the rise of landowning temples in India occurred at exactly the same time (R.
In that year Chiang not only concluded peace with the financiers and industrialists, but also a sort of "armistice" with the landowning gentry.
A united front was therefore formed between all Chinese, both peasants and landowning gentry, against the Chin, such as it had not been possible to form against the Kitan.
Only the landowning and slaveholding aristocracy owed a nominal allegiance to the two parties whose active members were the officeholders or those who hoped to become officeholders.
The Rajjhars, who appear to have formed a separate caste as the landowning subdivision of the Bhars, like the Raj-Gonds among Gonds, are said to be the descendants of a Raja and a Bharia woman.
The Welsh landowning families were numerous and poor, proud of their pedigrees, which unlike the Anglo-Norman had a full thousand years for genealogical facts or fancies to play over.
The Welsh parson of indifferent morals and lay habits had hitherto generally been of the landowning class.
Landowning beys would get peasants into their debt and thus establish themselves as semifeudal patrons of formerly independent villagers.
The 143 seats set free were divided equally between the towns and the counties; and in the counties the landowning aristocracy was still supreme.
It remains for us to say a word of the doctrines which would fill England with free landowning village communities.
If the Cambridgeshire townships had been landowning corporations, each of them would have passed as a single unit into the hands of some Norman baron.
The distinction that modern law draws between the landowning corporation and the group of co-owners is as sharp as any distinction can be.
But the number of these landowningchurches is small.
In a favourable environment the German village community may and will become a landowning corporation.
The original name appears to have been Raj Bhar, which signifies a landowning Bhar, like Raj-Gond, Raj-Korku and so on.
They eat flesh and fish, and the bulk of the caste eat fowls and drink liquor, but the landowning section abjures these practices.
Thus by comparing the two lists and trying to identify on the rent roll the names found in the patents, it is possible to fix the proportion of servants who won for themselves at this time places among the landowning class.
In the present case the burden fell on the latter class of people, and this fact was fortunate for the reception of the bill in the house, which consisted almost wholly of representatives of the landowning interest.
Its membership is recruited almost exclusively from the rigidly conservative landowning aristocracy, so that in attitude and policy it is apt to be in no degree representative of the mass of the nation, at least of the industrial classes.
But as a rule the ordinary avenues were open only to the landowning class.
No one else could kill game legally, and the law, sparing offenders of higher rank, was ruthlessly enforced by landowning magistrates against the poor.
Not only are the landowning families in a minority, but the minority is becoming smaller.
Nevertheless, when we consider the amount of gains accruing to the average member of the landowning class, we do not find that it is unreasonably large.
This means that the landowning minority will be in a position to reap unbought and continuous benefits at the expense of the landless majority.
So much for the proportion of the national product which goes to the landowning class.
Landowning will soon be the most disinterested form of philanthropy known to mankind.
I am no sportsman and have no landowning relations, so he ought to bid me hold my tongue.
