Sentence examples for Land proprietors from inspiring English sources

But this tends merely to show that if the law were made general, it would be more readily obeyed by private land proprietors than by the railway.

The numbers of cultivable land proprietors were decreased with time due to erosion; consequently, the numbers of shared cultivation were increased.

In his native Maine he had a mixed record, representing the state against large-scale land proprietors, but also taking work from the latter (who included some of the most powerful politicians in the state).

Land for CCC work camps was easy to come by in the West, as the federal government had been the largest land proprietor since the territorial days.

Thus, the peasants who had to till this land— probably the village as a corporate body— became share croppers of the temple, which was now a land proprietor.

After 1652 the land settlement of Oliver Cromwell established a new class of landed proprietors.

Napoleon cultivated the loyalty of the nation's wealthy landed proprietors by a system of patronage and honours.

Their pioneering vision was of "a free society of landed proprietors, comfortably off and happy .Thanks to the arrival of coffee, it worked.

Consequently, it gave large seigneuries, or grants, to landed proprietors who promised to bring in settlers, clear the forest, and develop the country.

In addition, in the French-speaking part of the country, a number of landed proprietors invested in mining enterprises, notably in the area between the Sambre and the Meuse rivers, which belonged to the principality of Liège.

Hereford, popular breed of beef cattle, the product of generations of breeding work on the part of landed proprietors and tenant farmers in the county of Herefordshire (now in Hereford and Worcester county), England.